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“For they conquer who believe they can.”
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John Dryden
#Confidence Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Literature Quotes
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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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John Dryden
#Party Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Order Quotes
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“The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.”
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John Dryden
#Birthday Quotes
#Son Quotes
#Men Quotes
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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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John Dryden
#Determination Quotes
#Fighting Quotes
#Littles Quotes
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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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John Dryden
#Time Quotes
#Simple Quotes
#Years Quotes
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“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
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John Dryden
#Inspirational Quotes
#Motivational Quotes
#Character Quotes
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“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
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John Dryden
#Anger Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Patient Quotes
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“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
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John Dryden
#Kings Quotes
#Political Quotes
#Plot Quotes
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“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”
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John Dryden
Source : John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics
#Dance Quotes
#Feet Quotes
#Dancing Quotes
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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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John Dryden
#Death Quotes
#Fear Quotes
#Life And Death Quotes
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“War is the trade of kings.”
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John Dryden
#Kings Quotes
#War Quotes
#Trade Quotes
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“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
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John Dryden
#Men Quotes
#Worry Quotes
#Care Quotes
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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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John Dryden
Source : John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.145
#Love Quotes
#Wise Quotes
#Mind Quotes
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“Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.”
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John Dryden
#Kings Quotes
#Fighting Quotes
#Empires Quotes
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“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”
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John Dryden
#Reality Quotes
#Literature Quotes
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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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John Dryden
#Life Quotes
#Cheating Quotes
#People Quotes
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“Love is not in our choice but in our fate.”
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John Dryden
#Love Quotes
#Fate Quotes
#Love Is Quotes
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“He who would search for pearls must dive below.”
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John Dryden
Source : 'All for Love' (1678) prologue
#Pearls Quotes
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“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”
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John Dryden
#Love Quotes
#Life Quotes
#Breakup Quotes
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“Love is love's reward.”
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John Dryden
#Love Quotes
#Philosophy Quotes
#Educational Quotes
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“Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.”
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John Dryden
Source : 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
#Order Quotes
#Grace Quotes
#Peculiar Quotes
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“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
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John Dryden
#Fear Quotes
#Mask Quotes
#Boldness Quotes
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“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
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John Dryden
Source : John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.44
#Running Quotes
#Rivers Quotes
#Sea Quotes
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“Successful crimes alone are justified.”
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John Dryden
#Successful Quotes
#Justified Quotes
#Crime Quotes
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“Mighty things from small beginnings grow.”
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John Dryden
#Power Quotes
#Grows Quotes
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“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.”
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John Dryden
#Men Quotes
#Good Man Quotes
#Want Quotes
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“Politicians neither love nor hate.”
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John Dryden
#Love Quotes
#Hate Quotes
#Love Hate Quotes
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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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John Dryden
#Fate Quotes
#Soul Quotes
#Shields Quotes
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“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”
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John Dryden
#I Miss You Quotes
#Missing You Quotes
#Years Quotes
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“Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.”
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John Dryden
#Life Quotes
#Passion Quotes
#Love Is Quotes
