All empire is no more than power in trust.
JOHN DRYDENSecret guilt is by silence revealed.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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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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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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