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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
John Dryden
But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little and
who talk too much.
John Dryden
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He,
who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do
thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden
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
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order
is the greatest grace.
John Dryden
The conscience of a people is their
power.
John Dryden
They think to little who talk to much.
John
Dryden
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
John Dryden
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
None
are so busy as the fool and knave.
John Dryden
Men 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 Dryden
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
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what
is, with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
Drinking is the soldier's
pleasure.
John Dryden
Fortune befriends the bold.
John Dryden
For
they conquer who believe they can.
John Dryden
For all have not the
gift of martyrdom.
John Dryden
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn
tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
John Dryden
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
Successful
crimes alone are justified.
John Dryden
All human things are subject
to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden
He
was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
John
Dryden
Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn,
and death the journey's end.
John Dryden
To die is landing on some distant
shore.
John Dryden
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
John
Dryden
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
John Dryden
Nor is
the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
John
Dryden
Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere
felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much
for things beyond our care.
John Dryden
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
So
over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
John
Dryden
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
John Dryden
All
things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John
Dryden
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
He has not learned the first
lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden
It
is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing
and is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden
Genius must be born, and never
can be taught.
John Dryden
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden
Time, place,
and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be
taught.
John Dryden
We first make our habits, and then our habits make
us.
John Dryden
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers,
rivers run to seas.
John Dryden
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it
will not bear a soil.
All heiresses are beautiful.
John Dryden
Jealousy
is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden
For present joys are more to
flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
John Dryden
Kings
fight for empires, madmen for applause.
John Dryden
When I consider
life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John
Dryden
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens
and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
Love is love's reward.
John
Dryden
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
John Dryden
Go
miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole
to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate
he left his son.
John Dryden
Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
John
Dryden
Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
John
Dryden
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
John Dryden
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
Never
was patriot yet, but was a fool.
John Dryden
He invades authors like
a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
John
Dryden
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
John Dryden
Mighty
things from small beginnings grow.
John Dryden
He who would search for
pearls must dive below.
John Dryden
Reason is a crutch for age, but
youth is strong enough to walk alone.
John Dryden
Repentance is but
want of power to sin.
John Dryden
Plots, true or false, are necessary
things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
John Dryden
Not to
ask is not be denied.
John Dryden
She feared no danger, for she knew
no sin.
John Dryden
Far more numerous are those as such; who think to
little and talk to much.
John Dryden
Time is the most valuable coin
in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be
careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.
John Dryden
Tomorrow
do thy worst, I have lived today.
John Dryden
He who trusts secrets
to a servant makes him his master.
John Dryden
Look around the inhabited
world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
John Dryden
War
is the trade of Kings.
John Dryden
War, he sung, is toil and trouble;
Honor but an empty bubble.
John Dryden
Nature meant me a wife, a silly
harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
John Dryden
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