Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
JOHN DRYDENAll empire is no more than power in trust.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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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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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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