Ill news is winged with fate, and flies apace.
—John Dryden
Topics: News
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
—John Dryden
Topics: Life, Living
There’s none but fears a future state; and when the most obdurate swear they do not, their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
—John Dryden
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
—John Dryden
Topics: Genius
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
—John Dryden
Topics: War
A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
—John Dryden
He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.
—John Dryden
Topics: Praise
Woman’s honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
—John Dryden
Topics: Honor, Woman
These are the effects of doting age: vain doubts, idle cares and overcaution.
—John Dryden
Topics: Age, Aging
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
—John Dryden
Topics: Guilt
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
—John Dryden
Topics: Death, Dying
How strangely high endeavors may be blessed, where piety and valor jointly go.
—John Dryden
Topics: Valor
If you are for a merry jaunt I will try for once who can foot it farthest.
—John Dryden
Topics: Walking
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
—John Dryden
Topics: Repentance, Forgiveness
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
—John Dryden
Topics: Parents, Parenting
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
—John Dryden
Topics: Familiarity, Knowledge
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
—John Dryden
Topics: Love
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend.—Better to hunt in fields for health unbought than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
—John Dryden
Topics: Exercise
All heiresses are beautiful.
—John Dryden
Topics: Inheritance, Wealth
It is better not to be than to be unhappy.
—John Dryden
Topics: Unhappiness
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
Topics: Happiness, The Present, Contentment, Time Management
There is a pleasure sure
In being mad which none but madmen know.
—John Dryden
Topics: Sanity
The sun, when he from noon declines, and with abated heat less fiercely shines; seems to grow milder as he goes away.
—John Dryden
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
—John Dryden
Topics: Politics
Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.
—John Dryden
Topics: Guilt
I have not joyed an hour since you departed, for public miseries, and for private fears; but this blest meeting has o’erpaid them all.
—John Dryden
Topics: Meeting
How can finite grasp infinity?
—John Dryden
Topics: Reason
Such subtle Covenants shall be made,
Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
—John Dryden
A foundation of good sense, and a cultivation of learning, are required to give a seasoning to retirement, and make us taste its blessings.
—John Dryden
Topics: Retirement
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
—John Dryden
Topics: Sin
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