Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
JOHN DRYDENBeware the fury of a patient man.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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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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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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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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