Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
JOHN DRYDENPity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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