Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
JOHN DRYDENWe can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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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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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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The winds are out of breath.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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