Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDENThey say everything in the world is good for something.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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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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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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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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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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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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