If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDENLight sufferings give us leisure to complain.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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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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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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