Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
JOHN DRYDENDesire of greatness is a godlike sin.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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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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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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