Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
JOHN DRYDENThose who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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