No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDENTime and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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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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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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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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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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