Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDENSure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Merit challenges envy.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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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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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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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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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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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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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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