Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDENThe trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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