John Dryden Quotes

• What passions cannot music raise or quell?

  John Dryden

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• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

  John Dryden

• War is the trade of Kings.

  John Dryden

• Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

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• To die is landing on some distant shore.

  John Dryden

• Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

  John Dryden

• They that possess the prince possess the laws.

  John Dryden

• There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

  John Dryden

• The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

  John Dryden

• The first is the law, the last prerogative.

  John Dryden

• Successful crimes alone are justified.

  John Dryden

• Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

  John Dryden

• Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.

  John Dryden

• Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

  John Dryden

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

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• Repentance is but want of power to sin.

  John Dryden

• Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

  John Dryden

• Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

  John Dryden

• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

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• Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

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John Dryden (201)

Birth:	9th August, 1631
Death:	1st May, 1700
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Playwright, Poet

About

John Dryden was born in Aldwincle, Thrapston, Northamptonshire, England. He was an English poet, literary critic and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He earned a BA degree from Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1654. He wrote several poems include: Annus Mirabilis, Absalom and Achitophel, The Medall, MacFlecknoe, The Hind and the Panther, Eleonora, and Fables Ancient and Modern. He wrote several plays include: The Wild Gallant, The Indian Emperour, Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, Tyrannick Love, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, Marriage A-la-Mode, Aureng-Zebe, All for Love, Oedipus, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon, and Love Triumphant.

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