And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
JOHN DRYDENSelf-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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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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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
JOHN DRYDEN