All empire is no more than power in trust.
JOHN DRYDENSince every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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