As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDENRiches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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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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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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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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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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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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