I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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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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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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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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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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