John Dryden on appetite
John Dryden239 quotes“Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.”
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
John DrydenJohn Dryden When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
John DrydenJohn Dryden When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Happy 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 DrydenJohn Dryden What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
John DrydenJohn Dryden Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
John DrydenJohn Dryden A happy genius is the gift of nature.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
John DrydenJohn Dryden And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
John DrydenJohn Dryden 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 DrydenJohn Dryden Love is love’s reward.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
John DrydenJohn Dryden There is a proud modesty in merit.
John DrydenJohn Dryden All empire is no more than power in trust.
John DrydenJohn Dryden
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Francois RabelaisFrancois Rabelais Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
Adam PhillipsAdam Phillips And take on the country’s most legendary eating challenges. I’m no competitive eater, just a regular guy with a serious appetite.
Adam RichmanAdam Richman No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
Adam HochschildAdam Hochschild Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
Ezra PoundEzra Pound Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke