John Dryden - Kind Quotes

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Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin'd:
Why am I forc'd, like Heav'n, against my mind,
To make Examples of another Kind?
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

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

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Be kind to my remains; and oh defend,
Against your judgment, your departed friend!

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That fairy kind of writing which depends only upon the force of imagination.

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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

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And kind as kings upon their coronation day.

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Made still a blund'ring kind of melody;
Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.
Free from all meaning, whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad.

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I can enjoy her while she's kind;
But when she dances in the wind,
And shakes the wings and will not stay,
I puff the prostitute away:
The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd:
Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
On Fortune

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How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

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And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

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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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He's somewhat lewd; but a well-meaning mind;
Weeps much; fights little; but is wond'rous kind.

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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

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