Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.
Quote by John Dryden
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Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.
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John Dryden Quotes
- The conscience of a people is their power.
- Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
- Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
- Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
- You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
- Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
- We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
- How can finite grasp infinity
- We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Best Quotes
- But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.
- Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
- New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
- They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
- In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
- Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
- The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
- I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.
- Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.