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"50 John Dryden Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 9 August 1631. Died: 12 May 1700 | Poet | Critic | Translator | Playwright |

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

Shun Bait Struggle Snare
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Dreams Fancy Reason Wakes
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear. To be we know not what, we know not where.

Death Fear Know What
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None are so busy as the fool and knave.

None Busy Fool
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To die is landing on some distant shore.

Die Landing Distant Shore
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Beware the fury of a patient man.

Beware Fury Patient Man
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There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Pleasure Mad None Know
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

Secret Guilt Silence Revealed
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Great wits are to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Great wits Allied Bounds Divide
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

Bold Sense Good men Starve
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I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again
Wounded Slain Rise up Fight
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Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

Errors Flow Search Pearls
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend

Easier Forgive Enemy Friend
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Happy Man Secure Lived
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So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

Dreadful Devour Live Music
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Love is love's reward.

Love Reward
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Habitable World Good Pursue
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot

Dancing Poetry Foot
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
Boldness Mask Fear Great
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

Welcome Deceiver Life Steal
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Order is the greatest grace

Order Greatest Grace
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For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

You New Glitters Gold
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

Fortune Soul Verge Fate
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Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

Write Critics Revenge Spite
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

All things Decay Fate Obey
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For whatsoe'er their sufferings were before, That change they covet makes them suffer more. All other errors but disturb a state; But innovation is the blow of fate.

Sufferings Change Disturb Fate
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Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck

Rhyme Rock Art Wreck
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts

Words Pictures Thoughts
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Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts.
Love Passion Honor Noble acts
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We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

First Make Habits
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God never made His work for man to mend.

God Work Man Mend
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What passions cannot music raise or quell?

Passions Music Raise Quell
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Honor is but an empty bubble.

Honor Empty
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And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Love's Noblest Fraility Mind
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For they conquer who believe they can.

Conquer Believe
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.

Objects Lose Familiar View
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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Genuis Born Never Taught
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Learned Lesson Life Fear
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Treat Son Man
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Life Cheat Hope Deceit
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Reason Age Youth Strong
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Pains Love Sweeter Pleasures
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Love Choice Fate
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Jealousy Jaundice Soul
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But love's a malady without a cure.

Love's Malady Cure
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War is the trade of Kings.

War Trade Kings
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Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Self-defence Nature's Law
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Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

Either Wholly Slaves Free
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Repentance Want Power Sin
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Truth Face Loved Seen
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John Dryden Quotes & Sayings