Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
JOHN DRYDENLove is not in our choice but in our fate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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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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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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