black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

John Dryden

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Mindset Worst
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
JOHN DRYDEN

Assurance Feeling Grief
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 who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
JOHN DRYDEN

Myself Old Power Remember
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love Pain Pleasure
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

King Mad Moments Nation
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lying Myself Wife
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Writing
Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hate Love Politics
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Fear Known
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
JOHN DRYDEN

Seldom War Wealth
Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Silence
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN

Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brown Easy Light Night
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
JOHN DRYDEN

Green Himself Youth
When 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 DRYDEN

Cheat Day False Fools Life
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hate Home Name Peace Soul
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eyes Heaven Nature
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
JOHN DRYDEN

Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDEN

Conscience People Power
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
JOHN DRYDEN

Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
JOHN DRYDEN

Confidence Fact Known

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Dryden Quotes