81 Quotations by John Dryden
- 41. Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
- 42. Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi ...
- 43. Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
- 44. Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without dece ...
- 45. Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
- 46. Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
- 47. None are so busy as the fool and knave.
- 48. None but the brave deserve the fair.
- 49. Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
- 50. Not to ask is not be denied.
- 51. Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
- 52. Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
- 53. Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
- 54. Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over vi ...
- 55. Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
- 56. Repentance is but want of power to sin.
- 57. Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
- 58. Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
- 59. Seek not to know what must not be revealed, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy ...
- 60. Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
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