War is the trade of kings.
JOHN DRYDENPity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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