The conscience of a people is their power.
Quote by John Dryden
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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John Dryden Quotes
- Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
- We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
- They think to little who talk to much.
- But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much.
- We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
- Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
- Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
- Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.
- Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Best Quotes
- By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
- In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.
- The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
- Don't waste your time trying to fit in because at the end of the day there's nothing beautiful about being someone else. Always remember that one day someone is going to notice the beauty of being You.
- When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
- I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.
- I have to live with both my selves as best I may.
- Bravery never goes out of fashion.
- I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
- If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.