As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDENDeathless laurel is the victor’s due.
More John Dryden Quotes
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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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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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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