War is the trade of kings.
JOHN DRYDENThey that possess the prince possess the laws.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The winds are out of breath.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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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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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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