Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDENAn hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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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.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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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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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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