Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDENWelcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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