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John Dryden Inspirational Quotes (290)

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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Time glides with undiscover'd haste The future but a length behind the past.
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For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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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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I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
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Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.
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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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The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
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Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.
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