An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDENWords are but pictures of our thoughts.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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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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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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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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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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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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