John Dryden Quotes
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Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,Fallen from his high estate,And welt'ring in his blood;Deserted, at his utmost need,By those his former bounty fed,On the bare earth exposed he lies,With not a friend to close his eyes.
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Lord of humankind.
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A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
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The sword within the scabbard keep,And let mankind agree.
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Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate,And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore;Long labours both by sea and land he bore.
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And heaven had wanted one immortal song.But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
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Music is inarticulate poesy.
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I am as free as Nature first made man,Ere the base laws of servitude began,When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Nor is the people's judgment always true:The most may err as grossly as the few.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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So over violent, or over civil,That every man with him was God or Devil.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,Grows cold even in the summer of her age.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power;But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kindThe worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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So softly death succeeded life in her,She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,Is to hate traitors and the treason love.
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Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.
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Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Since ev’ry 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.Like pilgrims, to th' appointed place we tend;The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
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Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
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Calms appear, when storms are past,Love will have its hour at last.