They say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDENThey say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDENAll things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDENMurder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
JOHN DRYDENOrder is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDENHe who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDENFor your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDENHe invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDENDeathless laurel is the victor’s due.
JOHN DRYDENRepentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDENNothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDENLove is love’s reward.
JOHN DRYDENIf you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDENGod never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDENThere is a proud modesty in merit.
JOHN DRYDENMen are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
JOHN DRYDENWe can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDEN