Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDENBe slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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