All empire is no more than power in trust.
JOHN DRYDENAmong our crimes oblivion may be set.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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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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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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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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God never made his work for man to mend.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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