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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
— John Dryden
Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.
— John Dryden
War is a trade of kings.
— John Dryden
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
— John Dryden
Order is the greatest grace
— John Dryden
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
— John Dryden
And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.
— John Dryden
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
— John Dryden
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
— John Dryden
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
— John Dryden
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
— John Dryden
Love is love's reward.
— John Dryden
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
— John Dryden
What passion cannot music raise or quell
— John Dryden
Fools are more hard to conquer than persuade.
— John Dryden
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
— John Dryden
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
— John Dryden
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
— John Dryden
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
— John Dryden
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
— John Dryden
But far more numerous was the herd of such,Who think too little, and who talk too much. — John Dryden
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
— John Dryden
Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
— John Dryden
For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.
— John Dryden
Tis Fate that flings the dice,And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings. — John Dryden
Love either finds equality or makes it.
— John Dryden
Virtue is her own reward.
— John Dryden
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
— John Dryden
The Jews, a headstrong, moody, murmuring race.
— John Dryden
What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.
— John Dryden
Hushed as midnight silence.
— John Dryden
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
— John Dryden
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
— John Dryden
I am as free as nature first made man,Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. — John Dryden
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
— John Dryden
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
— John Dryden
The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.
— 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
The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.
— John Dryden
Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
— John Dryden
Take the goods the gods provide thee.
— John Dryden
Successful crimes alone are justified.
— John Dryden
Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth.
— John Dryden
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
— 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
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
The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?
— John Dryden
Time and death shall depart and say in flyingLove has found out a way to live, by dying. — John Dryden
There is a proud modesty in merit.
— John Dryden
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
— John Dryden
words are but pictures of our thoughts
— John Dryden
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
— John Dryden
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
— John Dryden
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. — John Dryden
The greater part performed achieves the less.
— John Dryden
War is the trade of Kings.
— John Dryden
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
— John Dryden
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
— John Dryden
That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.
— John Dryden
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,But good men starve for want of impudence. — John Dryden
Honor is but an empty bubble.
— John Dryden
None but the brave deserve the fair.
— John Dryden
My love's a noble madness.
— 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