Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
JOHN DRYDENAmong our crimes oblivion may be set.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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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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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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