Quotes by Dryden, John

"Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings."

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"Not to ask is not be denied."

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"She feared no danger, for she knew no sin."

Dryden, John on sin
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"Fortune befriends the bold."

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"Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much."

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"Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you."

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"Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today."

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"He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master."

Dryden, John on trust   

"Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."

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"War is the trade of Kings."

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"War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble."

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"Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit."

Dryden, John on wives   

"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."

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"For they conquer who believe they can."

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"For all have not the gift of martyrdom."

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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

Dryden, John on conquest   

"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."

Dryden, John on contentment
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"Successful crimes alone are justified."

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"All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."

Dryden, John on death   

"He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew."

Dryden, John on death   

"Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end."

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"To die is landing on some distant shore."

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"Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless. "

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"Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade. "

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