For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDENFor your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDENPresent joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDENThere is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
JOHN DRYDENBeware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDENIf the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
JOHN DRYDENWhen I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
JOHN DRYDENConfidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDENPride – Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDENHe was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
JOHN DRYDENBut love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDENFool 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 DRYDENMany things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
JOHN DRYDENThey live too long who happiness outlive.
JOHN DRYDENSatire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDENFame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDENBut far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN