Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDENTreason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDENThey live too long who happiness outlive.
JOHN DRYDENHe has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDENAs one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDENTrust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
JOHN DRYDENWords are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDENKeen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDENIf all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
JOHN DRYDENBut love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDENSure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
JOHN DRYDENFame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDENNor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDENGod never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENAnd that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
JOHN DRYDENO freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDENRevenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
JOHN DRYDEN