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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  • Not to ask is not be denied.
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  • Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
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  • Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
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  • Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
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  • Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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  • Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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  • Repentance is but want of power of sin.
    Palamon and Arcite
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  • Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.
    The Indian Emperor
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  • Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
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  • Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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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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  • Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
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  • She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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  • Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
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  • So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
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  • Successful crimes alone are justified.
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  • The poetry of the foot.
    The Rival Ladies (1664) 3, 1
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  • The secret pleasure of a generous act, is the great mind's great bribe.
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  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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  • Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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