Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
JOHN DRYDENThe trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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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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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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