John Dryden Quotes

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God never made his work for man to mend.
- John Dryden

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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
- John Dryden

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There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.
- John Dryden

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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
- John Dryden

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A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
- John Dryden

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Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.
- John Dryden

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Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden

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Above any Greek or Roman name.
- John Dryden

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Who climbs the grammar tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
- John Dryden

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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
- John Dryden

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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
- John Dryden

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

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If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
- John Dryden

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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
- John Dryden

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Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.
- John Dryden

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The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
- John Dryden

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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden

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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
- John Dryden

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Fortune befriends the bold.
- John Dryden

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The habit does not make the monk.
- John Dryden

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All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
- John Dryden

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Love is love’s reward.
- John Dryden

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
- John Dryden

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He loved me well: so well he could but die – To show he loved me better than his life; he lost it for me.
- John Dryden

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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
- John Dryden

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But love’s a malady without a cure.
- John Dryden

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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
- John Dryden

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Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.
- John Dryden