Tag: John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

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Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

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Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.

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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

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The conscience of a people is their power.

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The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.

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The people have a right supremeTo make their kings, for Kings are made for them.All Empire is no more than Pow’r in Trust,Which when resum’d, can be no longer just.Successionm for the general good design’d,In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.

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They think to little who talk to much.

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

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