None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
More John Dryden Quotes
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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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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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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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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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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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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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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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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