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There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks


John Dryden

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JOHN DRYDEN Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Theres still so much interest in the Beatles and John and still so much mythology,
BOB SPITZ We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
JEAN TOOMER Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
MADAME DE GIRARDIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor...
ROBERT SCHUMANN To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always...
CECELIA AHERN The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE God never asks questions,but only gives answers in blessings.People never seek answers from themselv...
ANUJ SOMANY When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
GENE WOLFE Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
BARRY STERNLICHT The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE People are ... particularly risk-averse in bad times. It would be much easier, ironically, to elect ...
CELINDA LAKE It was found dead Oct. 7 in Dryden, Ontario. It shows that the birds were moving north.
DAVE GROSSHUESCH John and I spoke about it a few times. In fact, we spoke about it in the conference room in Trump To...
ALAN MARCUS I got a little girl, she's 4-years-old. Ten years from now, when she asks me about the Chicago Bears...
DAN HAMPTON I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, an...
A. C. BENSON Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.
JANN MITCHELL When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE When you get off to a bad start and put them to the line 14 times in the first quarter you are askin...
JEFF HODSON Instead of asking the viewer to pay, they're asking the advertiser to cough up.
JOHN SWALLEN I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. ...
CAMERON WINKLEVOSS The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
GEORGE WALD In the past ten years, Cummings Foundation has awarded nearly 0,000 in scholarships to outstanding W...
DENNIS CLARKE To say insurance companies should pay for stuff that is completely unproven is asking a lot from ins...
DAVID MAGNUS The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gif...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it
RICHARD STEELE SR. Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitio...
MARTIN LUTHER Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.
JAMES NESBITT Sometimes people appear in your life unexpectedly like a gift from the Universe. You didn’t even k...
RIITTA KLINT The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonha...
JIMMY PAGE As long as you respond in a timely manner, most times it's resolved fairly easy.
JEAN MAPLES Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.
WILLIAM A. IRWIN Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE All I am asking (my players) to do is the simple things and do it well. To pass the ball ten yards, ...
ALAN KERNAGHAN As you know, we had a heck of a ball game with Michigan State, ... John L. (Smith) and his staff did...
JIM TRESSEL I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
TED STEVENS A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and te...
BIBLE Failures could kill our dreams ten times; fears could kill our dreams ten times hundred times.
JOHN B. BEJO It captured ten times more information and it had millisecond accuracy.
LOUIS BURNS In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
GEORGE BANCROFT A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient...
CHARLES CHURCHILL We want shorter contracts, because the times change. And we haven't had a pay raise since 1997. That...
JASON KLEIN To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... It will please though ten times repeated.
UNKNOWN Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.
ALLEN KLEIN Ten greatest gifts; love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ge...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Pain has creative power,
Let the magic unfold...
HENNA SOHAIL Asking for a less burdensome severance pay regulation doesn't mean that we want to avoid paying it.
SOFJAN WANANDI Theres no way to be successful
in music and be debauched.
GREG KOCH The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.
JOAN CHEN Most importantly, include potential tax payments in your budget of expenses. Plan ahead to pay taxes...
CATE WILLIAMS I love 'Starship Troopers.' I've seen it ten times.
JOEL KINNAMAN Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. ...
HARRIET MARTINEAU You take a request down - literally, you take a request to the Finance Office. If the Pay Officer re...
JANIS KARPINSKI He's extremely keen and eager to see the conflict resolved. All the European Union has been asking f...
CHRISTINA GALLACH If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV ...
JOHN GREEN God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
AESCHYLUS I used to come down and polish John Wayne because I was proud he was here and proud to be here. Not ...
DAVE ROY I challenge each member of the council to donate a month of their (council) salary to pay for the gi...
FRANK COCCHO Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resour...
JULIAN SIMON The pay is not comparable to what we're asking people to do,
MIKE MAHONEY I'm a homebody times ten.
CHARLIE PUTH Because a Bodhisattva who gives a gift should not be supported by a thing, nor should he be supporte...
BUDDHA As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
LEWIS N. ROE I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
DAN SHECHTMAN He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he c...
ZOROASTER I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half th...
ARTHUR GODFREY In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts ...
VINCENT MCNABB I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
FULTON J. SHEEN I had phone calls from him numerous times asking me does she still love him. I told him if it was me...
MARSHA JONES We've looked at the lawsuit and find it has absolutely no merit, and we intend to vigorously defend ...
ANDREW CORTY We see the border dispute... from an energy security perspective. We have an interest in it and woul...
BENSON WHITNEY The hospitals keep asking me to pay, but I just tell them to get in line with the other hospitals. I...
ANNA ORTIZ Try asking for equal pay while wearing a baby-doll frock
KATHARINE VINER To train up a child in this digital era is ten times harder than in the pre-digital era.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Asking men to cut away their “feminine” traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just a...
KAMERON HURLEY Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that
reason alone keeps people from al...
DARYNDA JONES Why do all of the greatest strengths seem to originate as weaknesses? Maybe because the greatest str...
ROBERT REYNOLDS If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay atten...
ANNIE PROULX If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay atten...
ANNIE PROULX The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
MARGARET HALSEY When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
JEANETTE CORON Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should be ready to pay the highest price in orde...
SUNDAY ADELAJA From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better runni...
JOHN HICKENLOOPER I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you a...
KANGANA RANAUT The energy you get from the anti-particle particle annihilation is about ten billion times that of c...
GEORGE SCHMIDT

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JOHN DRYDEN Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.
JOHN DRYDEN The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN For that can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
JOHN DRYDEN Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDEN Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he r...
JOHN DRYDEN Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now ...
JOHN DRYDEN The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
JOHN DRYDEN Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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JOHN DRYDEN Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
JOHN DRYDEN He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
JOHN DRYDEN Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
JOHN DRYDEN To die is landing on some distant shore.
JOHN DRYDEN Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and...
JOHN DRYDEN Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a...
JOHN DRYDEN But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
JOHN DRYDEN For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
JOHN DRYDEN The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
JOHN DRYDEN It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a colleg...
JOHN DRYDEN Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
JOHN DRYDEN Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
JOHN DRYDEN Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
JOHN DRYDEN Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
JOHN DRYDEN Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDEN Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others...
JOHN DRYDEN The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDEN Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
JOHN DRYDEN Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
JOHN DRYDEN Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDEN Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin
JOHN DRYDEN Fortune befriends the bold.
JOHN DRYDEN For they conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDEN Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he m...
JOHN DRYDEN Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDEN We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDEN Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
JOHN DRYDEN He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN All human things are subject to decay,
And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey;
This Fleckn...
JOHN DRYDEN Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy pe...
JOHN DRYDEN Nor is the people's judgement always true;
The most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDEN Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
JOHN DRYDEN All objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDEN Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDEN Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDEN Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
JOHN DRYDEN Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi...
JOHN DRYDEN Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
JOHN DRYDEN Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what...
JOHN DRYDEN All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDEN We lov'd, and we lov'd as long as we could
Til our love was lov'd out in us both;
But our marr...
JOHN DRYDEN It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled...
JOHN DRYDEN For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over vi...
JOHN DRYDEN So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
JOHN DRYDEN Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
JOHN DRYDEN The people have a right supreme
To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
All Empire i...
JOHN DRYDEN Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, to...
JOHN DRYDEN For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
JOHN DRYDEN Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.
JOHN DRYDEN Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
JOHN DRYDEN Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDEN She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
JOHN DRYDEN Not to ask is not be denied.
JOHN DRYDEN He's a sure card.
JOHN DRYDEN The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsha...
JOHN DRYDEN Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
JOHN DRYDEN Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
JOHN DRYDEN A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
JOHN DRYDEN Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd m...
JOHN DRYDEN There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
JOHN DRYDEN Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDEN Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.
JOHN DRYDEN If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mo...
JOHN DRYDEN Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
JOHN DRYDEN By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDEN Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDEN But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
JOHN DRYDEN Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.
JOHN DRYDEN Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can...
JOHN DRYDEN Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
JOHN DRYDEN Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the...
JOHN DRYDEN God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscienc...
JOHN DRYDEN For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is th...
JOHN DRYDEN Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lie...
JOHN DRYDEN Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And w...
JOHN DRYDEN Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
JOHN DRYDEN Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
JOHN DRYDEN As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The reli...
JOHN DRYDEN And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private ...
JOHN DRYDEN Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
JOHN DRYDEN Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
JOHN DRYDEN Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
JOHN DRYDEN Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
JOHN DRYDEN God never made His work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wis...
JOHN DRYDEN Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
JOHN DRYDEN When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
JOHN DRYDEN The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDEN This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which...
JOHN DRYDEN Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDEN He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
JOHN DRYDEN Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are ...
JOHN DRYDEN At every close she made, th' attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song: So jus...
JOHN DRYDEN The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
JOHN DRYDEN Whatever he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please.
JOHN DRYDEN Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the slidi...
JOHN DRYDEN With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems...
JOHN DRYDEN Whatever is, is in its causes just.
JOHN DRYDEN Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDEN The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. His preac...
JOHN DRYDEN The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound; It speaks ...
JOHN DRYDEN A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDEN When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la ...
JOHN DRYDEN Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; ...
JOHN DRYDEN A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
JOHN DRYDEN He made all countries where he came his own.
JOHN DRYDEN And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive ...
JOHN DRYDEN Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
JOHN DRYDEN The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees. Th...
JOHN DRYDEN Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And t...
JOHN DRYDEN Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
JOHN DRYDEN She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.
JOHN DRYDEN Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
JOHN DRYDEN And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.
JOHN DRYDEN Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands, And, with his compass, measures seas and lands...
JOHN DRYDEN Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring...
JOHN DRYDEN None are so busy as the fool and knave.
JOHN DRYDEN We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDEN They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will ...
JOHN DRYDEN Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, c...
JOHN DRYDEN But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
JOHN DRYDEN Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be ...
JOHN DRYDEN Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
JOHN DRYDEN War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDEN Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN Love is love's reward.
JOHN DRYDEN Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
JOHN DRYDEN But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
JOHN DRYDEN Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
JOHN DRYDEN The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
JOHN DRYDEN Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
JOHN DRYDEN Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
JOHN DRYDEN The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
JOHN DRYDEN There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the un...
JOHN DRYDEN When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted...
JOHN DRYDEN Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpa...
JOHN DRYDEN The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of bre...
JOHN DRYDEN Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; a...
JOHN DRYDEN Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chi...
JOHN DRYDEN She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.
JOHN DRYDEN And all to leave, what with this toil he won, / To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased w...
JOHN DRYDEN And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN 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 To live at ease, and not be bound to think.
JOHN DRYDEN A mob is the scum that rises utmost when the nation boils
JOHN DRYDEN To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.
JOHN DRYDEN Even victors are by victory undone
JOHN DRYDEN Sighed and looked, and sighed again.
JOHN DRYDEN