No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDENWar is the trade of kings.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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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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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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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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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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