War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
JOHN DRYDENAn horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
More John Dryden Quotes
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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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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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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