Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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