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Ken Dryden

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The market traded off once Greenspan began speaking and said nothing on the economy.
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Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.
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Our players have earned the right to have the stage here in Chicago.
DOUG BRUNO
I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more a...
CARROT TOP
Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN
But this is my dream, right here.
BETH KEATING
My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covere...
JESSICA RAINE
This is one of the best wins in my career here. We need any win right now just to give these young g...
LEVI STUKES
Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.
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I ended my career on the right note. I was really hotter than a pistol!
JASON MCELWAIN
My poor cooking is legendary among my friends.
LESLEY NICOL
I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
RAKUL PREET SINGH
Let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely,
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I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was r...
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Frankly speaking, I feel very scared. Can I survive here? If I do my best on a daily basis, my God w...
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Well, we're out of time here. Regardless of that, and what might be perceived as our disagreement on...
KEITH OLBERMANN
Right now I'm pretty single . . . . My career is my boyfriend.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO
I may be the right man for the job, but the job just isn't right for me at this time in my career,
BILL ARCHER
I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm si...
ADRIANA LIMA
I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you...
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At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close fr...
DANIEL NATHANS
Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered ...
ESSIE DAVIS
I've had my dream job. I have been able to work on issues that I have been deeply passionate about s...
ARTHUR LEVITT
This is the first time my whole career I'm pitching the way I'm pitching right now. I'm surprising m...
HECTOR CARRASCO
Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.
I think I'm coming to a different stage of my career and hopefully this is going to be a very good b...
LAUREN JACKSON
This is the largest case I ever worked on in my career.
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He acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. He knows his whole career depends on doing this righ...
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex...
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Not in my wildest dreams did I think I would be on this stage.
DAVID FRIEDMAN
We haven't had much luck against them in my career here.
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What's different here is that Ken Starr is able to play God with government funding.
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There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right rea...
GLENN TIPTON
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KEN DRYDEN
It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when,
KEN DRYDEN
It represents a huge new opportunity here,
KEN DRYDEN
For 18 months, we had worked on something that mattered: a national system of early learning and chi...
KEN DRYDEN
As kids we knew whatever Canada was then it would be far greater tomorrow. That is the Canada I see ...
KEN DRYDEN
So, speed up the when.
KEN DRYDEN
And the fact is that, in our last reporting date which is 2002-2003, Quebec had invested about $1.2-...
KEN DRYDEN
All of those are areas in which money goes specifically to stay-at-home parents. This is a program f...
KEN DRYDEN
[A goalie's] job is to stop pucks, ... Well, yeah, that's part of it. But you know what else it is? ...
KEN DRYDEN
For example, what it represents is for a territory like Nunavut, they would get about eight times as...
KEN DRYDEN
I'm running because the day after election day, I was mad.
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What is it like to hear the words you're dumb, you're stupid? That comes to be their understanding o...
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Icebreaker III. We began working on it right after the Baltic one.
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It's fitting I end my career here at home where it started,
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BRENDA DAVIES
This is a very small legal community. Do you really want to start pissing off more experienced lawye...
WILLIAM KORMAN
This is my kingdom right here, my home, that's all I need, that's all I want.
ALEXANDER NAKI
She is plain but on the stage she looks all right.
JESSICA TANDY
This is not my usual stage.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything...
JOHN CENA
This has been my dream. This is it for me right here. I can die happy.
LECHARLES BENTLEY
At this stage of my career, to have a whole new array of experiences, to play in new stadiums and ne...
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At this stage of my career, to have a whole new array of experiences, to play in new stadiums and ne...
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I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the sta...
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I intend to build this brand again, ... Elite is legendary.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on s...
FELICITY KENDAL
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was...
LIONEL BLUE
This garden is fabulous — the loveliest spot on Earth is right here.
LINDA LIVINGSTON
At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, ...
ELLIOT COWAN
I've been here since the place began. We had no idea all this would happen.
FRANK LOGAN
I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.
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The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of...
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This road trip is very important that we're going on. This is our season, right here.
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It was found dead Oct. 7 in Dryden, Ontario. It shows that the birds were moving north.
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As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, de...
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That's my spot - in the corner. I was on my way here. My back would have been right there.
DAVID BENTLEY
I didn't come to Nashville to move Ken Griffey Jr.. I came here to make our team better.
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I'm not planning on going this summer. I just don't want to go because somehow I just feel like my l...
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This has been a tax of legendary volatility, making predictions especially confounding.
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Hopefully I'll be able to finish my career here, ... This is a situation where as a player you're lo...
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My life began with Ronnie.
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In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the...
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
JOHN DRYDEN
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDEN
We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefo...
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Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.
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
I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.
SPENCER 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 ...
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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.
JOHN DRYDEN
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom ...
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.
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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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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others...
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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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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin
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Fortune befriends the bold.
JOHN DRYDEN
For they conquer who believe they can.
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Successful crimes alone are justified.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he m...
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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.
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 mo...
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Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
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By education most have been misled.
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Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
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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.
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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.
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God never made His work for man to mend.
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Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wis...
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which...
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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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 ...
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At every close she made, th' attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song: So jus...
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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.
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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.
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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