Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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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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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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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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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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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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