The winds are out of breath.
JOHN DRYDENNone but the brave deserve the fair.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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