Not to ask is not be denied.
John Dryden
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Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried;Then ask God's help; it will not be denied.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI I don't see how he can do that because he has not denied the allegations so far.
BOB BARR To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
MADELEINE M. KUNIN Ask me not what I have, but what I am
HEINRICH HEINE If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM To be honest with you, we've denied very few (requests), and it's not any one thing.
LT. RAFAEL CINTRON Justice delayed is Justice denied BUT Success delayed is not Success Denied
ASHISH SOPHAT Curiosity is also my worst vice, and once stirred one not to be denied.
ANTHONY RYAN If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
YOGI BERRA Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
MAGIC JOHNSON Gentle he would be, denied he would not.
DIANA GABALDON I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN It is not to be denied that the world's second largest gas reserves are in Iran.
WULF BERNOTAT Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY A justice delayed will not be a justice denied.
ERIC UELAND I frankly was disheartened, but not surprised that the appeal was denied.
SCOTT MILLER This is not to be denied, not forgotten. But what we are focusing on are the good things, the contri...
MARCIA ZERIVITZ I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Not only was there a John Doe No. 2,
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH Not that you're not youthful. You're very youthful, John. But he looks like he's 18!
WHOOPI GOLDBERG Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!
JAMIE MCCALL To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN Yes Im young,We Belong,Love Is Sung,By the peaceful Song...Listen Please, You'll fall to your knees,...
NOT YER TYPICAL DORK I think everyone is entitled to our heritage and should not be denied it. It is elitist not to teach...
JOHN BELL Supposedly, words are not to be denied, in fact, it has to be pondered and pampered.
YTHAM REIJAN ROSELITTLE COOGEIL If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer it
YOGI BERRA Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up t...
GEORGE BUSH If a young player were to ask me what to do, ... I'm not going to tell him it's bad. Look at all the...
KEN CAMINITI Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why
ERNEST RENAN Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Money is not everything.
BEN OAK But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the fai...
BIBLE Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.
H.L. MENCKEN Do not feel discouraged to growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
MARIE MUHAMMAD Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO When going on the journey of life we should always put caution to the wind and have strength in ever...
GARY F EVANS... Why live for tomorrow like a fool when tomorrow is not here yet.Live for the day like a wise individ...
GARY F EVANS... To have the strength to go and fulfil your hopes and dreams is an aim worth your while indeed, but i...
GARY F EVANS... If we tempt fate we can go over like a roller coaster coming to the end of its tracks.Fate has its o...
GARY F EVANS... The only thing I asked of John was try not to get trapped on the rail. Give him a place to run.
BOB HOLTHUS There could not be a better person for such an important position than John Roberts,
JAY SEKULOW His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not ea...
LARRY MCMURTRY The Atlanta ordinance says this is how Atlanta is solving Atlanta's homeless problem. You're not alo...
MICHAEL STOOPS Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I do not ask you much:I beg cold comfort.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've learned I'm not going to underestimate myself anymore; I'm going to ask more of myself.
CURTIS JENKINS Do not ask questions of fairy tales
JEWISH PROVERB If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING To ask why a happening in one place did not take place in another place also is the sign of a confus...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA People used to ask me if it didn't bother me that they were saying things against me that were not t...
CHARLES PICKERING I'm not exactly sure what he meant by that. I need to ask him about it.
JEFF GORDON It's not an upset. We knew we were going to do this all along. You can ask anyone in this locker roo...
DARRELL BROOKS John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
HOWARD DEAN Brother Connor not only said he did not remember the two incidents, he categorically denied the accu...
PAUL CHEVEDDEN True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
TORQUATO TASSO Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
ORSON SCOTT CARD God is not pleased with these mashed potato Christians. You know the kind that are found in the T.V....
LAMAR THOMPSON Justification is withdrawn from works, not that no good works may be done, or that what is done may ...
JOHN CALVIN The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over...
JAMES F. BYRNES There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a w...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC be gentle, not fragile.
JATAWNY MUCKELVENE CHATMON Never be afraid to ask if there is something you do not understand.
CAITLYN LAIDLAW The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT John Kerry and John Edwards would be smart to make their case for gay and lesbian fairness by not me...
PATRICK GUERRIERO Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I haven't heard anything like that since John Rocker , ... I think an apology is not going to be eno...
OMAR VIZQUEL John did something that he hasn't done since last year. He would bend but not break. He was good in ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA I haven't heard anything like that since John Rocker. I think an apology is not going to be enough f...
OMAR VIZQUEL And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there ...
BIBLE Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.
BRADLEE VAN PELT I think what is troubling is not John Ashcroft as a person,
PATRICK LEAHY Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not ...
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV Not to be sure of fulfilling kingdom assignment is to ask for directions from God
SUNDAY ADELAJA Permission to disregard your orders, Underqueen."
"Permission not granted. Permission categori...
SAMANTHA SHANNON Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.
EDGAR A. SUTER [It denied as] ridiculous ... he does not take alcoholic drinks.
ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE Do not be afraid ask questions.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. I John
BIBLE I must down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call tha...
JOHN MASEFIELD The whole procedure is outrageous. He is not going to go on his knees and ask for a visa.
CARTHAGE SMITH I'm not going to ask for a pardon. In fact I'll probably be going to jail again. But those who want ...
REP. ALVIN HOLMES I was functioning as a lawyer, not a priest. He did not elaborate. I did not ask.
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More John Dryden
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...
JOHN DRYDEN 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 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.
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.
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 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 I'm a little wounded but I'm not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, Then I'll rise and f...
JOHN DRYDEN