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Power Quotes by John Dryden
- Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
- Repentance is but want of power to sin.
- Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
- The conscience of a people is their power.
- All empire is no more than power in trust.
- Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power…
- Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past…
- From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The…
- 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…
- Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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