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Silence in times of suffering is the best.

John Dryden

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 DRYDEN

Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Defense Law Nature
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Modesty Proud Time
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN

Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking

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