All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDENAll things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDENTrust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
JOHN DRYDENFor your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDENThe glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDENSure 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 DRYDENThe scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDENA good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDENMore liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
JOHN DRYDENSome of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
JOHN DRYDENAll objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDENBut how can finite grasp Infinity?
JOHN DRYDENFor what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
JOHN DRYDENNo king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDENNot sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
JOHN DRYDENWhat, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
JOHN DRYDENOrder is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN