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50 John Dryden Quotes & Sayings
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50 John Dryden Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 9 August 1631. Died: 12 May 1700 |
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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
John Dryden
Shun
Bait
Struggle
Snare
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
Death
Fear
Know
What
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None are so busy as the fool and knave.
John Dryden
None
Busy
Fool
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To die is landing on some distant shore.
John Dryden
Die
Landing
Distant
Shore
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
Beware
Fury
Patient
Man
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There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know.
John Dryden
Pleasure
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None
Know
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
John Dryden
Secret
Guilt
Silence
Revealed
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Great wits are to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
Bold
Sense
Good men
Starve
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John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
Errors
Flow
Search
Pearls
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
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
John Dryden
Dreadful
Devour
Live
Music
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Love is love's reward.
John Dryden
Love
Reward
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
John Dryden
Habitable
World
Good
Pursue
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot
John Dryden
Dancing
Poetry
Foot
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John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
Welcome
Deceiver
Life
Steal
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Order is the greatest grace
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
Write
Critics
Revenge
Spite
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
Sufferings
Change
Disturb
Fate
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Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck
John Dryden
Rhyme
Rock
Art
Wreck
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts
John Dryden
Words
Pictures
Thoughts
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John Dryden
Love
Passion
Honor
Noble acts
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We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
John Dryden
First
Make
Habits
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God never made His work for man to mend.
John Dryden
God
Work
Man
Mend
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What passions cannot music raise or quell?
John Dryden
Passions
Music
Raise
Quell
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
John Dryden
Honor
Empty
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And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
John Dryden
Love's
Noblest
Fraility
Mind
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For they conquer who believe they can.
John Dryden
Conquer
Believe
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
John Dryden
Objects
Lose
Familiar
View
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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
Learned
Lesson
Life
Fear
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
John Dryden
Treat
Son
Man
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden
Life
Cheat
Hope
Deceit
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
John Dryden
Reason
Age
Youth
Strong
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
Pains
Love
Sweeter
Pleasures
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
John Dryden
Love
Choice
Fate
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden
Jealousy
Jaundice
Soul
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But love's a malady without a cure.
John Dryden
Love's
Malady
Cure
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War is the trade of Kings.
John Dryden
War
Trade
Kings
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Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
John Dryden
Self-defence
Nature's
Law
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Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
John Dryden
Either
Wholly
Slaves
Free
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
Truth
Face
Loved
Seen
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John Dryden Quotes & Sayings