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 -
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.
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