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Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies. — John Dryden

Order is the greatest grace — John Dryden

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm. — John Dryden

He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green. — John Dryden

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. — John Dryden

I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant. — John Dryden

My love's a noble madness. — John Dryden

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts — John Dryden

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason. — John Dryden

Better one suffer than a nation grieve. — John Dryden

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law. — John Dryden

Love either finds equality or makes it. — John Dryden

Take the goods the gods provide thee. — John Dryden

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best. — John Dryden

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. — John Dryden

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit. — John Dryden

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden

I learn to pity woes so like my own. — John Dryden

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours. — John Dryden

Silence in times of suffering is the best. — John Dryden

Second thoughts, they say, are best. — John Dryden

Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth. — John Dryden

As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe. — John Dryden

There is a proud modesty in merit. — John Dryden

Time and death shall depart and say in flying
Love has found out a way to live, by dying. — John Dryden

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill? — John Dryden

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave. — John Dryden

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. — John Dryden

None are so busy as the fool and the knave. — John Dryden

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. — John Dryden

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted. — John Dryden

Successful crimes alone are justified. — John Dryden

Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys ... — John Dryden

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. — John Dryden

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too. — John Dryden

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. — John Dryden

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all. — John Dryden

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden