For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
JOHN DRYDENForgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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War is the trade of kings.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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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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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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