The winds are out of breath.
JOHN DRYDENFreedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Love is love’s reward.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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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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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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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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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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