An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDENNor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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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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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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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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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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