An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
JOHN DRYDENLight sufferings give us leisure to complain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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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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Love is love’s reward.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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