An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDENLong pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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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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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDEN






