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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
Love
John Dryden

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Love
John Dryden

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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
Power
John Dryden

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Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
Wives
John Dryden

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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
Patriotism
John Dryden

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Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
Democracy
John Dryden

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Not to ask is not be denied.
Silence
John Dryden

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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
Anxiety
John Dryden

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
Pain
John Dryden

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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
John Dryden

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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Reason
John Dryden

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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
Repentance
John Dryden

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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
Politicians and Politics
John Dryden

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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Conquest
John Dryden

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Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
Defense
John Dryden

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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
Sin
John Dryden

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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
Extremes and Extremists
John Dryden

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Successful crimes alone are justified.
Crime and Criminals
John Dryden

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Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
Uncategorised
John Dryden

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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
Parents and Parenting
John Dryden

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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
Opportunity
John Dryden

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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Genius
John Dryden

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To die is landing on some distant shore.
Death and Dying
John Dryden

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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
Tomorrow
John Dryden

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War is the trade of Kings.
War
John Dryden

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