Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDENLove is love’s reward.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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War is the trade of kings.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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