The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
JOHN DRYDENAll things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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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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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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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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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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