No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDENThey first condemn that first advised the ill.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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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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By education most have been misled.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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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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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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