John Dryden Quotes
1631 – 1700
English poet and playwright, the first Poet Laureate of England.
24 quotesAbout John Dryden on Wikipedia
“The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.”
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
“For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be loved needs only to be seen.”
“Of all the tyrannies on human kind The worst is that which persecutes the mind.”
“Endure the hardships of your present state, Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.”
“All human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
“A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”
“Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.”
“'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes with something still that's new.”
“By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.”
