Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDENWe can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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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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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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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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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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War is the trade of kings.
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