The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDENDesire of greatness is a godlike sin.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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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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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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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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