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. John Dryden
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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.

John Dryden

 Cheating Trust
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.

John Dryden

 
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

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

Not to ask is not be denied.

John Dryden

 Ask Silence
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.

John Dryden

 Art Wives
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.

John Dryden

 
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.

John Dryden

 English Poet
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

John Dryden

 Aristotle
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.

John Dryden

 Revolutions And Revolutionaries
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease - John Dryden Quotes

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease

John Dryden

 
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