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John Dryden Quotes
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks (John Dryden Quotes)
‘Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness (John Dryden Quotes)
Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words (John Dryden Quotes)
Not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest (John Dryden Quotes)
With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb’st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care (John Dryden Quotes)
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men (John Dryden Quotes)
Criticism is now become mere hangman’s work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice (John Dryden Quotes)
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another (John Dryden Quotes)
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies (John Dryden Quotes)
Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason (John Dryden Quotes)
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace (John Dryden Quotes)
Fool 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 Dryden Quotes)
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen (John Dryden Quotes)
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear (John Dryden Quotes)
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence (John Dryden Quotes)
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue (John Dryden Quotes)
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds (John Dryden Quotes)
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail (John Dryden Quotes)
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before! (John Dryden Quotes)
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few (John Dryden Quotes)
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either God or devil (John Dryden Quotes)
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him (John Dryden Quotes)
A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind (John Dryden Quotes)
Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne (John Dryden Quotes)
If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest (John Dryden Quotes)
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss (John Dryden Quotes)
I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language (John Dryden Quotes)
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie (John Dryden Quotes)
That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave (John Dryden Quotes)
The perverseness of my fate is such that he’s not mine because he’s mine too much (John Dryden Quotes)