An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDENWe by art unteach what Nature taught.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
-
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDEN -
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN -
All authors to their own defects are blind.
JOHN DRYDEN -
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDEN -
For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Merit challenges envy.
JOHN DRYDEN -
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN