Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDENTake not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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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.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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