For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
JOHN DRYDENFor what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
JOHN DRYDENI saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDENSet all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDENThe sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDENSo softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
JOHN DRYDENLove works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDENRiches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
JOHN DRYDENA narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
JOHN DRYDENTruth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
JOHN DRYDENMurder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
JOHN DRYDENThere is a proud modesty in merit.
JOHN DRYDENLove 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.
JOHN DRYDENConfidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDENAnd love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDENMighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDENThey live too long who happiness outlive.
JOHN DRYDEN