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Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fury Man Patience
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner

Beware the fury of a patient man.

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