Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDENCourage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
More John Dryden Quotes
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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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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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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War is the trade of kings.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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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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