They that possess the prince possess the laws.
JOHN DRYDENGod never made his work for man to mend.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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