Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDENAnd write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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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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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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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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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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War is the trade of kings.
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