John Dryden Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

  John Dryden

  Heaven, Liberty, Life Is

  John Dryden, George Gilfillan (1857). “Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”

• So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

  John Dryden

  Life, Dream, Heaven

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.136

• The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

  John Dryden

  Nature, Eye, Science

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (1995). “The Poems of John Dryden: 1693-1696”, p.302, Pearson Education

• In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Men, Israel

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

• From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave.

  John Dryden

  Years, Heaven, Plot

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.985-8.

• For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.

  John Dryden

  Faith, Mysterious Things, Heaven

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.399, Pearson Education

• Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

  John Dryden

  Men, Light, Heaven

• Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.

  John Dryden

  Prayer, Angel, Heaven

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.287

• Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

  John Dryden

  Men, Heaven, Usury

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.144

• Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

  John Dryden

  Men, Heaven, Lucky

  John Dryden (1993). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV: Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication”, p.116, Univ of California Press

• Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

  John Dryden

  Love, Men, Heaven

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.138

• Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

  John Dryden

  Grace And Mercy, Heaven, Attributes

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.187

• Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

  John Dryden

  Rain, Fate, Past

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.349

• The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

  John Dryden

  Heaven, Free Will, Endure

  John Dryden (1808). “Dramatic works”, p.162

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