The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDENHe was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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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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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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