We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDENSeas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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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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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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