Order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN
JOHN DRYDEN
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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John DrydenJohn Dryden And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
John DrydenJohn Dryden He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
John DrydenJohn Dryden It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
John DrydenJohn Dryden For they can conquer who believe they can.
John DrydenJohn Dryden They say everything in the world is good for something.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
John DrydenJohn Dryden While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Virtue is her own reward.
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