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John Dryden Inspirational Quotes (290)

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Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.
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Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
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He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.
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Better one suffer than a nation grieve.
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Good sense and good nature are never separated and good nature is the product of right reason.
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.
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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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I learn to pity woes so like my own.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Fortune's unjust she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
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Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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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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