Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDENAn horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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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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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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