Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDENTo die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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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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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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