Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDENThus, 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
JOHN DRYDEN






