Quotes by John Dryden

John Dryden

John Dryden

English poet and playwright

Lived from: 1631 - 1700

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 19 august 1631 Died: 12 may 1700

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  • Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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  • 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.
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  • He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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  • He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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  • He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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  • He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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  • Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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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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  • Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
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  • Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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  • Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
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  • Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
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  • Love is love's reward.
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  • Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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  • Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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  • Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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  • Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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  • Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
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  • Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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  • Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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