John Dryden Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?”
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“The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.”
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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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“Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.”
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“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
-- John Dryden#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Character Quotes
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“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
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“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”
-- John DrydenSource : John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics
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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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“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
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“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
-- John DrydenSource : John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.145
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“Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.”
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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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“He who would search for pearls must dive below.”
-- John DrydenSource : 'All for Love' (1678) prologue
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“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”
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“Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.”
-- John DrydenSource : John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.132, Univ of California Press
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“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
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“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
-- John DrydenSource : John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.44
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“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.”
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“Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.”
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“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”
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“Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.”
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