So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
JOHN DRYDENBeware the fury of a patient man.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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By education most have been misled.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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