The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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By education most have been misled.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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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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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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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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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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