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John Dryden Quote: “Ill fortune seldom comes alone.”
John Dryden Quote: “Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.”
John Dryden Quote: “No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.”
John Dryden Quote: “Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.”
John Dryden Quote: “The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.”
John Dryden Quote: “But ’tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.”
John Dryden Quote: “The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower’d with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham’d, though foil’d, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.”
John Dryden Quote: “Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue, – I mean good-nature, – are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.”
John Dryden Quote: “As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.”
John Dryden Quote: “With how much ease believe we what we wish!”
John Dryden Quote: “Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.”
John Dryden Quote: “And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah’s Ark.”
John Dryden Quote: “Repartee is the soul of conversation.”
John Dryden Quote: “The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.”
John Dryden Quote: “For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.”
John Dryden Quote: “And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason ’tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind’s concern.”
John Dryden Quote: “So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.”
John Dryden Quote: “Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.”
John Dryden Quote: “Not Heav’n itself upon the past has pow’r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
John Dryden Quote: “Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.”
John Dryden Quote: “Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.”
John Dryden Quote: “Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.”
John Dryden Quote: “What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.”
John Dryden Quote: “He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.”
John Dryden Quote: “Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass’d.”
John Dryden Quote: “For all have not the gift of martyrdom.”
John Dryden Quote: “What I have left is from my native spring; I’ve still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.”
John Dryden Quote: “Genius must be born, it can’t be taught.”
John Dryden Quote: “Better one suffer than a nation grieve.”
John Dryden Quote: “Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.”
John Dryden Quote: “I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.”
John Dryden Quote: “When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.”
John Dryden Quote: “Among our crimes oblivion may be set.”
John Dryden Quote: “At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.”
John Dryden Quote: “God never made his work for man to mend.”
John Dryden Quote: “Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.”
John Dryden Quote: “If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.”
John Dryden Quote: “Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.”
John Dryden Quote: “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.”
John Dryden Quote: “Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.”
John Dryden Quote: “Successful crimes alone are justified.”
John Dryden Quote: “Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.”
John Dryden Quote: “Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.”
John Dryden Quote: “Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.”
John Dryden Quote: “My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.”
John Dryden Quote: “Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.”
John Dryden Quote: “I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.”
John Dryden Quote: “Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus’s blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.”
John Dryden Quote: “What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?”
John Dryden Quote: “Silence in times of suffering is the best.”
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