John Dryden Quotes

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• I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

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  Determination, Fighting, Littles

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• Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

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  Foundation, Truth Is, Cement

  John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.23, Univ of California Press

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• Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

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  Mind, Liberty, Libertarian

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.230

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• Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

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  Confidence, Knowing, Feelings

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• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Character

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• Beware of the fury of the patient man.

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  Fear, Men, Atheism

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• Silence in times of suffering is the best.

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  Silence, Suffering

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.297

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• We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

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  Iron, Hot, May

  'Aeneis' (1697) dedication

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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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  Love, Wise, Mind

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.145

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• Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

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  Gun, Self, Law

  John Dryden (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

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  Kings, Political, True Or False

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 83

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• None, none descends into himself, to find
  The secret imperfections of his mind:
  But every one is eagle-ey'd to see
  Another's faults, and his deformity.

  John Dryden

  Eagles, Imperfection, Mind

  John Dryden (1760). “The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...”, p.379

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• By education most have been misled.

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  Education, Misled, Has Beens

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 389

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• For they can conquer who believe they can.

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  Confidence, Believe, Literature

  "The Works of Virgil".

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• Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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  Forgiveness, Adventure, Law

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• He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

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  Trust, Confidence, Keeping Secrets

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• Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

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  Reality, Literature, Our Thoughts

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• 'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

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  Funny, Laughter, Humorous

  John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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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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  Fate, Design, Mind

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.108

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• The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.

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  Generosity, Secret, Mind

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.429

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• The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

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  Birthday, Son, Men

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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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  Fear, Life Lesson, Learning

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• Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

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  Order, Grace, Peculiar

  John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.132, Univ of California Press

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• I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

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  Evil, May, Valiant

  John Dryden (1976). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV: Plays: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon”, p.248, Univ of California Press

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• Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

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  Love, Life, Breakup

  'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 4, sc. 1

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