Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDENMurder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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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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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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By education most have been misled.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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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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