John Dryden Quotes

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• War is the trade of kings.
• Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
• Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
• Not to ask is not be denied.
• An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
• She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
• Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
• Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
• 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…
• Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
• He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
• All heiresses are beautiful.
• When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
• From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.
• Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
• None but the brave deserve the fair.
• God never made his work for man to mend.
• The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
• 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…
• Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

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