Pride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDENPride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDENKeen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDENPresence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
JOHN DRYDENI never saw any good that came of telling truth.
JOHN DRYDENAll flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
JOHN DRYDENMany things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
JOHN DRYDENThey first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDENBeware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDENSatire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDENHushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDENHappy 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.
JOHN DRYDENA farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDENNo government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDENDeath in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDENAnd love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
JOHN DRYDEN