A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
John Dryden
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
John Dryden
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
John Dryden
And plenty makes us poor.
John Dryden
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
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.
John Dryden
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
John Dryden
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
John Dryden
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
John Dryden
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
John Dryden
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
John Dryden
For they conquer who believe they can.
John Dryden
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
God never made His work for man to mend.
John Dryden
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
John Dryden
Honor is but an empty bubble.
John Dryden
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
John Dryden
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
John Dryden
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
John Dryden
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden
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
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
John Dryden
Love is love's reward.
John Dryden
Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
John Dryden
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
John Dryden
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
John Dryden
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
John Dryden
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
John Dryden
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
John Dryden
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
John Dryden
So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
John Dryden
Successful crimes alone are justified.
John Dryden
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
John Dryden
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
John Dryden
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
John Dryden
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
John Dryden
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
John Dryden
Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
John Dryden
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
John Dryden
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
John Dryden
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
John Dryden
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
John Dryden
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
John Dryden
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Type:
Poet
Date of Birth:
1631-08-09
Year of Death:
1700
Nationality:
English |
