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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
— John Dryden
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
— John Dryden
Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend;The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end. — John Dryden
Oh, my goodness, Lord Dryden. You should have seen your face when you said the word work. It's not counted among the deadly sins, you know.
— Julie Anne Long
Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.
— John Dryden
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
— John Dryden
In an athlete, it is not the legs that go first
— Ken Dryden
Order is the greatest grace
— John Dryden
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[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.
— Hugh L. Dryden
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
— John Dryden
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
— 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
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
— John Dryden
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric ...
— John Dryden
But love's a malady without a cure.
— John Dryden
Love is love's reward.
— John Dryden
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
— John Dryden
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
— John Dryden
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
— John Dryden
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,But good men starve for want of impudence. — 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
Deathless laurel is the victor's due.
— John Dryden
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
— John Dryden
Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.
— John Dryden
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
— John Dryden
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
— John Dryden
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
— John Dryden
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
— John Dryden
Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
— John Dryden
The greater part performed achieves the less.
— John Dryden
To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
— 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
Delicate petals Flow open to receive me Sweetest kiss of all Holy
— Delphine Dryden
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
— 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
words are but pictures of our thoughts
— John Dryden
Honor is but an empty bubble.
— John Dryden
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. — John Dryden
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
— H.P. Lovecraft
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