black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.

John Dryden

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
JOHN DRYDEN

Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
All delays are dangerous in war.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dangerous Delay War
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDEN

Degree River Sea
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
JOHN DRYDEN

Courage Mindset Presence Success
None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Deserve Fair
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Pearl Search
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 DRYDEN

Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDEN

Familiar Lose Object View
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
They live too long who happiness outlive.
JOHN DRYDEN

Happiness Live
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN

Equality Life Live Right
All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful One Liner
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN

Distance Flesh Goodness Present

Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Dryden Quotes