Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDENThey think too little who talk too much.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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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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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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The winds are out of breath.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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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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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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