“Beware the fury of a patient man.”

— John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

About John Dryden

1631 – 1700

English poet and playwright, the first Poet Laureate of England.

“Whatever is, is in its causes just.”

“Genius must be born, and never can be taught.”

“Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

“No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”

“Increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid.”

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”