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John Dryden Quotes About Love

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

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

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

But love's a malady without a cure.

John Dryden Quotes About Spiritual

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

More Quotes by John Dryden

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

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

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

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

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.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

God never made His work for man to mend.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

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

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

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.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

War is the trade of Kings.

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

And plenty makes us poor.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Even victors are by victories undone.

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