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When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: to-morrow's falser than the former day. - John Dryden Quotes

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: to-morrow's falser than the former day.

When rattling bones together fly, / From the four corners of the sky. - John Dryden Quotes

When rattling bones together fly, / From the four corners of the sky.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below - John Dryden Quotes

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below

Not to ask is not be denied. - John Dryden Quotes

Not to ask is not be denied.

Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. - John Dryden Quotes

Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone. - John Dryden Quotes

To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.

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. - John Dryden Quotes

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.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader - John Dryden Quotes

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings. - John Dryden Quotes

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

Revolutions And Revolutionaries

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease - John Dryden Quotes

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease

Love is not in our choice but in our fate. - John Dryden Quotes

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Choice English Poet

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are - John Dryden Quotes

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are

Cute

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

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

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; / Honour but an empty bubble; / Never ending, still beginning, / Fighting still, and still destroying. / If all the world be worth thy winning, / Think, oh think, it worth enjoying. - John Dryden Quotes

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; / Honour but an empty bubble; / Never ending, still beginning, / Fighting still, and still destroying. / If all the world be worth thy winning, / Think, oh think, it worth enjoying.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. - John Dryden Quotes

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Love is love's reward. - John Dryden Quotes

Love is love's reward.

English Poet Love

Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the slain. - John Dryden Quotes

Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the slain.

He raised a mortal to the skies; / She drew an angel down. - John Dryden Quotes

He raised a mortal to the skies; / She drew an angel down.

Successful crimes alone are justified - John Dryden Quotes

Successful crimes alone are justified

He who would search for pearls must dive below. - John Dryden Quotes

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat yet, fool'd by hope, men favour the deceit - John Dryden Quotes

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat yet, fool'd by hope, men favour the deceit

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

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

Deceit English Poet

Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden Quotes

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Anger English Poet

Fortune befriends the bold. - John Dryden Quotes

Fortune befriends the bold.

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity! - John Dryden Quotes

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

A mob is the scum that rises up most when the nation boils - John Dryden Quotes

A mob is the scum that rises up most when the nation boils

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. - John Dryden Quotes

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. - John Dryden Quotes

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

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

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

Argument English Poet

They found the new Messiah by the star. - John Dryden Quotes

They found the new Messiah by the star.

Mighty things from small beginnings grow. - John Dryden Quotes

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

Power

Farewell, too little and too lately known, / Whom I began to think and call my own. - John Dryden Quotes

Farewell, too little and too lately known, / Whom I began to think and call my own.

Looks as he were Lord of humankind. - John Dryden Quotes

Looks as he were Lord of humankind.

Witness ye days and nights, and all ye hours, / That danced away with down upon your feet. - John Dryden Quotes

Witness ye days and nights, and all ye hours, / That danced away with down upon your feet.

They first condemn that first advised the ill - John Dryden Quotes

They first condemn that first advised the ill

True fops help nature's work, and go to school - to file and finish God Almighty's fool - John Dryden Quotes

True fops help nature's work, and go to school - to file and finish God Almighty's fool

Fools And Foolishness

Youth, beauty, graceful action, seldom fail:/ But common interest always will prevail. - John Dryden Quotes

Youth, beauty, graceful action, seldom fail:/ But common interest always will prevail.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages. - John Dryden Quotes

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much. - John Dryden Quotes

Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.

Thoughts And Thinking

He [Chaucer] is a perpetual fountain of good sense. - John Dryden Quotes

He [Chaucer] is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. - John Dryden Quotes

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

To live at ease, and not be bound to think. - John Dryden Quotes

To live at ease, and not be bound to think.

He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. - John Dryden Quotes

He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres. - John Dryden Quotes

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

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres. - John Dryden Quotes

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

A mob is the scum that rises utmost when the nation boils - John Dryden Quotes

A mob is the scum that rises utmost when the nation boils

For all have not the gift of martyrdom. - John Dryden Quotes

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. - John Dryden Quotes

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

For politicians neither love nor hate. - John Dryden Quotes

For politicians neither love nor hate.

He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved me better than his life; he lost it for me - John Dryden Quotes

He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved me better than his life; he lost it for me

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