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.
JOHN DRYDENWelcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
More John Dryden Quotes
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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The winds are out of breath.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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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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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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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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War is the trade of kings.
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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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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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