No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDENAn hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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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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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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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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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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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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