John Dryden Quotes
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'T is not for nothing that we life pursue;It pays our hopes with something still that's new.
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Words, once my stock, are wanting to commendSo great a poet and so good a friend.
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Happy, happy, happy pair!None but the brave, None but the brave,None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
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She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,Can draw you to her with a single hair.
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For those whom God to ruin has design'd,He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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An horrid stillness first invades the ear,And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Above any Greek or Roman name.
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All, all of a piece throughout:Thy chase had a beast in view;Thy wars brought nothing about;Thy lovers were all untrue.'Tis well an old age is out,And time to begin a new.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.
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Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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God never made His work for man to mend.
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Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight,Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relateThe mystic wonders of your silent state!
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Like you, an alien in a land unknown,I learn to pity woes so like my own.
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What precious drops are thoseWhich silently each other's track pursue,Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drewHis spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Too black for heav'n, and yet too white for hell.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.