As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDENWar is the trade of kings.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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