Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
JOHN DRYDENMurder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Merit challenges envy.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
JOHN DRYDEN