Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDENThe conscience of a people is their power.
More John Dryden Quotes
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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