Honor is but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDENLove and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
More John Dryden Quotes
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War is the trade of kings.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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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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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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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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