Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDENAmong our crimes oblivion may be set.
More John Dryden Quotes
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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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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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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