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Beware of the fury of the patient man.

John Dryden

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
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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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman

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