Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
JOHN DRYDENMen’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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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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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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