Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDENSure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
More John Dryden Quotes
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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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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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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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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