All delays are dangerous in war.
JOHN DRYDENA good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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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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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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