What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
JOHN DRYDENThe love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
More John Dryden Quotes
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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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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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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