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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.

~John Dryden

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

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War is the trade of Kings.

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For they conquer who believe they can.

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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: August 19th, 1631

Died: May 12th, 1700

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