John Dryden Quotes - Page 7

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• Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

  John Dryden

  Kings, Fighting, Empires

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• 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”

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• Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

  John Dryden

  Greatness, Desire, Sin

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.232

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• But love's a malady without a cure.

  John Dryden

  Love, Literature, Cures

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 2, l. 110

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• A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

  John Dryden

  Believe, Mind, Obstinacy

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• More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

  John Dryden

  Desire, Liberty, Hunger

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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• The conscience of a people is their power.

  John Dryden

  People, Conscience

  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.218, Univ of California Press

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• I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Saws, Telling The Truth

  William Shakespeare, Mr. John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays”

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• 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

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• He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

  John Dryden

  Curiosity, Behind The Scenes, Counterfeit

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• War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

  John Dryden

  War, Wealth, Allure

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.253

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• Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

  John Dryden

  Age, Genius, Study

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)

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• Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Men, Anxious Thoughts

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• There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

  John Dryden

  Asking, Proud, Pay

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3874, Delphi Classics

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• Politicians neither love nor hate.

  John Dryden

  Love, Hate, Love Hate

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.223.

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• For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Missing

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.194

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• Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

  John Dryden

  Change, Time, Children

  All for Love act 4, sc. 1 (1678)

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• Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

  John Dryden

  Trust, Treason

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• Repartee is the soul of conversation.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Conversation, Repartee

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• Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.

  John Dryden

  Men, Thinking, Errors

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.433

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• It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

  John Dryden

  Mistress, Events, Madness

  "The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author".

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• Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
  Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

  John Dryden

  Revenge, Writing, Spite

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.409

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• I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

  John Dryden

  Women, Wrinkles, Twenties

  'The Maiden Queen' (1668) act 3, sc. 1

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• Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

  John Dryden

  Silence, Secret, Guilt

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• No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

  John Dryden

  Government, Server, Blockheads

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