They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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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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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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