They say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDENTake not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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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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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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