All delays are dangerous in war.
JOHN DRYDENIf thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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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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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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