Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Quote by John Dryden

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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from...

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from...

Even victors are by victory undone

Even victors are by victory undone

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise

And plenty makes us poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds...

Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds...

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked...

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked...

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

What all your sex desire is Sovereignty

What all your sex desire is Sovereignty

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

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

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

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we...

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we...