Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
JOHN DRYDENAt home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
More John Dryden Quotes
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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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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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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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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Merit challenges envy.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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