black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

John Dryden

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Chance Man Subject
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Despair Happiness
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dance Foot Poetry
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
JOHN DRYDEN

Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Ideas Nature Pleasure View
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDEN

Green Himself Youth
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Learning Lesson
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Fear Known
Pride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Pride
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
JOHN DRYDEN

Force Happiness Land Winter
Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hate Love Politics
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
JOHN DRYDEN

Known Mad Pleasure
None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brave Deserve Fair

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Dryden Quotes