Commonwealth Quote by John Dryden Download Open image “Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.” — John Dryden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commonwealth Kings Necessary things Plot Political Raise up Raises Ruins True or false
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The outcome is to delegitimize and deconstruct the kings in effective ways in order to show that while they occupy the forms of power,… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“The messages of a prophet...affect the decisions of kings. The decisions of kings determine not just the course of nations but also the life… — Mesu Andrews Copy Share Image
Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen. — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
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… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon. — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with. — Kim Collins Copy Share Image
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting… — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
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