Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDENMore liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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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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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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