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John Dryden Quotes
Best Quotes by John Dryden (Top 10)
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
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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.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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For they conquer who believe they can.
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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
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Love is love's reward.
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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.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day.
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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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.
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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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.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian—that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.
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A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
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What passions cannot music raise or quell?
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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To die is landing on some distant shore.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.
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Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
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Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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