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John Dryden [1631-1700] English

Rank: 102
Poet (with poems)

Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Laureate, Satire

John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.

Love, Alone, Anger, Age, Brainy, Communication, Fear, Forgiveness, Future, Great, Happiness, Hope, Jealousy, Money, Nature, Patience, Poetry, Time, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.	Nature	101
Love is love's reward.	Love	102
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.		103
He who would search for pearls must dive below.		104
Beware the fury of a patient man.	Patience	105
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.	Fear, Great	106
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.		107
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.	Alone	108
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.	Time	109
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.	Communication	110
For they conquer who believe they can.		111
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.		112
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.	Brainy	113
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.	Hope	114
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.	Love	115
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.		116
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.		117
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.		118
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.		119
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.	Jealousy	120
But love's a malady without a cure.	Love	121
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.	Truth	122
Even victors are by victories undone.		123
And plenty makes us poor.	Money	124
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.		125
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.		126
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.	Forgiveness	201
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.	Happiness	202
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.	Anger	203
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!	Future	204
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.	Age, Alone	205
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.		206
Successful crimes alone are justified.		207
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.		208
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.	Poetry	209
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.		210
They that possess the prince possess the laws.		211
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.		212
The first is the law, the last prerogative.		213
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.	Anger	214
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.		215
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.		216
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.		217
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.		218
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.		219
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.		220
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.		221
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.		222
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.		223
War is the trade of Kings.		224
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.		225
God never made His work for man to mend.		226
What passions cannot music raise or quell?		301
Honor is but an empty bubble.		302
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.		303
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.		304
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.		305
To die is landing on some distant shore.		306
All heiresses are beautiful.		307
Repentance is but want of power to sin.		308
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.		309
All objects lose by too familiar a view.		310

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