More from John Dryden
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John DrydenJohn Dryden If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
John DrydenJohn Dryden A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
John DrydenJohn Dryden For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
John DrydenJohn Dryden By education most have been misled.
John DrydenJohn Dryden If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
John DrydenJohn Dryden Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
John DrydenJohn Dryden And plenty makes us poor.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
John DrydenJohn Dryden For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
John DrydenJohn Dryden All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John DrydenJohn Dryden
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