None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDENHe was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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The winds are out of breath.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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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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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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