We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDENBut when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
-
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN 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 DRYDEN -
God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN -
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDEN -
All delays are dangerous in war.
JOHN DRYDEN -
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDEN -
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDEN






