The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
JOHN DRYDENAll flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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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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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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