"Beware the fury of a patient man!" — John Dryden

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

The Child is Father of the Man;

Source: Poems in Two Volumes, My Heart Leaps Up (1807)

Men are but children of a larger growth.

Source: All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost (1677)

Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Source: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII (1624)

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