Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDENThe trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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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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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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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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