The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENThe trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Merit challenges envy.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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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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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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