When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
JOHN DRYDENAll empire is no more than power in trust.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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The winds are out of breath.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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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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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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