If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDENNo king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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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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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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