Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDENLight sufferings give us leisure to complain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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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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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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By education most have been misled.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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