Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDENNo government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
More John Dryden Quotes
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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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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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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