Honor is but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDENAmong our crimes oblivion may be set.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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The winds are out of breath.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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