Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
JOHN DRYDENWar is the trade of kings.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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By education most have been misled.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDEN