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Quote by John Dryden
The people have a right supremeTo make their kings, for Kings

The people have a right supreme
To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
All Empire is no more than Powr in Trust,
Which when resumd, can be no longer just.
Successionm for the general good designd,
In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind. – John Dryden

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. – John Dryden

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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. – John Dryden

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Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where. – John Dryden

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Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
Tis folly to be wise. – Thomas Gray

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The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And evn the rigid feature:
Yet neer with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laughs a poor exchange
For deity offended. – Robert Burns

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This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Literary

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasnt got money. – David Geffen

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