John Dryden Quotes

• Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

  John Dryden

• Love is love’s reward.

  John Dryden

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

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• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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• Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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• It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

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• Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

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• Honor is but an empty bubble.

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• He who would search for pearls must dive below.

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• He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

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• 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.

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• Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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• God never made His work for man to mend.

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• Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

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• Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

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• Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.

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• For they conquer who believe they can.

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• 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.

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• Even victors are by victories undone.

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• Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

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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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