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Beware of the fury of the patient man.

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

Fear, Men, Atheism

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

Foundation, Truth Is, Cement

John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.23, Univ of California Press

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.

Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

"The Major Works".

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Power, Want, Sin

'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 813

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

Kings, Political, True Or False

'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 83

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

Father, Writing, Patterns

1668 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

Determination, Fighting, Littles

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

Passion, Men, Cheated

John Dryden (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin”, p.139

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Inspirational, Motivational, Character

Silence in times of suffering is the best.

Silence, Suffering

John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.297

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

Mother, Eye, Men

John Dryden, George Rapall Noyes (1950). “The poetical works of Dryden”

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

Confidence, Knowing, Feelings

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

Mind, Liberty, Libertarian

John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.230

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

Gun, Self, Law

John Dryden (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.63, Courier Corporation

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

God, Devil, Usual

None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformity.

Eagles, Imperfection, Mind

John Dryden (1760). “The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...”, p.379

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

Iron, Hot, May

'Aeneis' (1697) dedication

Love either finds equality or makes it.

Love, Marriage, Best Love

John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.490

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Love, Wise, Mind

John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.145

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Forgiveness, Adventure, Law

By education most have been misled.

Education, Misled, Has Beens

'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 389

For they can conquer who believe they can.

Confidence, Believe, Literature

"The Works of Virgil".

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Reality, Literature, Our Thoughts

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Fear, Life Lesson, Learning

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Funny, Laughter, Humorous

John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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