Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDENSecret guilt is by silence revealed.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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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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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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