Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDENRepentance is but want of power to sin.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Merit challenges envy.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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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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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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The winds are out of breath.
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