Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDENO freedom, first delight of human kind!
More John Dryden Quotes
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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