We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDENFor all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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