Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDENLove is not in our choice but in our fate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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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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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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