Pride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDENThe secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
More John Dryden Quotes
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDEN






