Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDENFreedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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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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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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