Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
JOHN DRYDENRiches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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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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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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