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- Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts. John Dryden. Confidence, Knowing, Feelings.
- 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. Spring, Heart, Fate.
- Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. John Dryden. Love, Wise, Mind.
- Beware of the fury of the patient man. John Dryden. Fear, Men, Atheism.
- “Beware the fury of a patient man.” ― John Dryden.
- “Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.” ― John Dryden, The Poetical Works of John Dryden.
- “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” ― John Dryden.
- “I am sore wounded but not slain. I will lay me down and bleed a while. And then rise up to fight again” ― John Dryden.
John Dryden Quotes - BrainyQuote. English - Poet August 19, 1631 - May 12, 1700. Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden. All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. John Dryden. There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know. John Dryden.
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- The Conquest of Granada
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I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
What flocks of critics hover here to-day, As vultures wait on armies for their prey, All gaping for the carcase of a play! With croaking notes they bode some dire event, And follow dying poets by t...
Whatever is, is in its causes just.His hair just grizzled, As in a green old age.Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long — Even wondered at, because he dropped no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran...She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.Lord of humankind.Like a led victim, to my death I'll go, And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.Second thoughts, they say, are best.He's a sure card.They say everything in the world is good for something.Whate’er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please.Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and...A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to m...In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.And heaven had wanted one immortal song. But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.All human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.The rest to some faint meaning make pretense, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine nig...Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land. There thou mayst wings display and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.Main article: Imitation of HoraceHappy 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.Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content w...From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye...
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.And doomed to death, though fated not to die.For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be loved needs only to be seen.Of all the tyrannies on human kind The worst is that which persecutes the mind.Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.And kind as kings upon their coronation day.Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below. John Dryden. Gratitude, Grateful, Errors. 11 Copy quote. When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate. John Dryden. Men, Long, Judging. 12 Copy quote.
The below collection of John Dryden’s most famous quotes have been excerpted from his writings, poems, satires, essays, plays, prose and thoughts. This collection of quotes by John Dryden is the easiest way to know his level of wisdom and his perspective of life.
Learn about John Dryden, the greatest English poet, playwright, prose writer, and translator of the 17th century. Read some of his famous poems, such as Absalom and Achitophel, Annus Mirabilis, and To My Honour'd Kinsman.
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