They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDENThey first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDENThey say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDENAnger 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 DRYDENVirgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDENOf all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDENShame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
JOHN DRYDENBut love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDENWhat passion cannot music raise and quell!
JOHN DRYDENFiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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 DRYDENBeware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDENTruth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
JOHN DRYDENWhen I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDENThe thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
JOHN DRYDENKings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDENNor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDEN