Quotes by John Dryden

John Dryden

English poet and playwright

Alive from: 1631-1700

Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)

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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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  Beware the fury of a patient man.

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  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.

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  All empire is no more than power in trust.

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  All heiresses are beautiful.

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  All objects lose by too familiar a view.

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  All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

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  Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

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  Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
  Source: Epilogue to Constantine the Great

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  But love's a malady without cure.

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  Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where

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  Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

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  Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.

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  Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.

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  For all have not the gift of martyrdom.