The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDENSo the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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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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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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By education most have been misled.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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