Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
JOHN DRYDENTime glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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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.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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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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