An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
JOHN DRYDENLove is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
-
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN -
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN -
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
JOHN DRYDEN -
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDEN -
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
JOHN DRYDEN