An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
JOHN DRYDENAll empire is no more than power in trust.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Love 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.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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