John Dryden on modesty
John Dryden239 quotes“There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.”
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
John DrydenJohn Dryden And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
John DrydenJohn Dryden At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
John DrydenJohn Dryden O freedom, first delight of human kind!
John DrydenJohn Dryden What passion cannot music raise and quell!
John DrydenJohn Dryden He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The winds are out of breath.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Politicians neither love nor hate.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
John DrydenJohn Dryden As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
John DrydenJohn Dryden More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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More on modesty
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
TacitusTacitus The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
Paul CezannePaul Cezanne Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
TacitusTacitus When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TacitusTacitus After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
Christian BaleChristian Bale Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.
Claude MonetClaude Monet You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.
Debbie FordDebbie Ford A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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