The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDENAll things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
More John Dryden Quotes
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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By education most have been misled.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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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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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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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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