They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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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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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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