Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
JOHN DRYDENThey, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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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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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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