All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDENSelf-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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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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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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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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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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The winds are out of breath.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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War is the trade of kings.
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