The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
JOHN DRYDENLucky men are favorites of Heaven.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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