Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDENCourage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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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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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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The winds are out of breath.
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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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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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