I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDENThe scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Love is love’s reward.
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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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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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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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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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