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John Dryden Inspirational Quotes (290)

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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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He invades authors like a monarch and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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What I have left is from my native spring I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.
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Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
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Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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I strongly wish for what I faintly hope like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
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The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.
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From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave God cannot grant so much as they can crave.
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The elephant is never won by anger nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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