John Dryden Quotes
81 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."
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"For all have not the gift of martyrdom."
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"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
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"You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water."
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"It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence."
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"Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies"
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"He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master."
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"Not to ask is not be denied."
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"None but the brave deserves the fair."
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"Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are"
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"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit."
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"But love's a malady without a cure."
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"All objects lose by too familiar a view."
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"The first is the law, the last prerogative."
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"Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone."
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"They that possess the prince possess the laws."
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"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!"
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"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."
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"What passions cannot music raise or quell?"
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"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
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