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John Dryden Inspirational Quotes (290)

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My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
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By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Restless at home, and ever prone to range.
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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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How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.
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He was exhaled his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.
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Pleasure never comes sincere to man but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
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He made all countries where he came his own.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!
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A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day Like Hectors in at every petty fray.
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Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
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Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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