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John Dryden Quotes
English - Poet August 19, 1631 - May 12, 1700
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
John Dryden
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.
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
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden
Love is love's reward.
John Dryden
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
John Dryden
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
John Dryden
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
John Dryden
For they conquer who believe they can.
John Dryden
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
John Dryden
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden
But love's a malady without a cure.
John Dryden
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
John Dryden
Honor is but an empty bubble.
John Dryden
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
John Dryden
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
John Dryden
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.
John Dryden
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
John Dryden
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
John Dryden
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
John Dryden
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
John Dryden
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
John Dryden
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
John Dryden
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
John Dryden
Successful crimes alone are justified.
John Dryden
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
John Dryden
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
John Dryden
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
John Dryden
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
John Dryden
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
John Dryden
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
John Dryden
To die is landing on some distant shore.
John Dryden
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
John Dryden
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
All heiresses are beautiful.
John Dryden
Even victors are by victories undone.
John Dryden
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
God never made His work for man to mend.
John Dryden
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
John Dryden
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
John Dryden
And plenty makes us poor.
John Dryden
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
John Dryden
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
John Dryden
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
John Dryden
War is the trade of Kings.
John Dryden
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
John Dryden
Eustace Budgell Quotes
English - Writer August 19, 1686 - May 4, 1737
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Eustace Budgell
Samuel Richardson Quotes
English - Novelist August 19, 1689 - July 4, 1761
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
Samuel Richardson
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
Samuel Richardson
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Samuel Richardson
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Samuel Richardson
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Samuel Richardson
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
Samuel Richardson
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
Samuel Richardson
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Samuel Richardson
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
Samuel Richardson
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Samuel Richardson
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Samuel Richardson
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
Samuel Richardson
Love is not a volunteer thing.
Samuel Richardson
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Samuel Richardson
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
Samuel Richardson
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Samuel Richardson
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Samuel Richardson
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Samuel Richardson
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Samuel Richardson
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
Samuel Richardson
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Samuel Richardson
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
Samuel Richardson
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
Samuel Richardson
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Samuel Richardson
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
Samuel Richardson
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Samuel Richardson
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Samuel Richardson
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
Samuel Richardson
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
Samuel Richardson
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
Samuel Richardson
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
Samuel Richardson
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
Samuel Richardson
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Samuel Richardson
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Samuel Richardson
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Samuel Richardson
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
Samuel Richardson
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Samuel Richardson
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Samuel Richardson
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
Samuel Richardson
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Samuel Richardson
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Samuel Richardson
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
Samuel Richardson
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
Samuel Richardson
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
Samuel Richardson
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
Samuel Richardson
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
Samuel Richardson
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
Samuel Richardson
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.
Samuel Richardson
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
Samuel Richardson
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Samuel Richardson
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Samuel Richardson
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Samuel Richardson
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
Samuel Richardson
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
Samuel Richardson
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Samuel Richardson
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Samuel Richardson
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
Samuel Richardson
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Samuel Richardson
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Samuel Richardson
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
Samuel Richardson
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
Samuel Richardson
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
Samuel Richardson
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
Samuel Richardson
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
Samuel Richardson
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Samuel Richardson
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
Samuel Richardson
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Samuel Richardson
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Samuel Richardson
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
Samuel Richardson
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
Samuel Richardson
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
Samuel Richardson
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
Samuel Richardson
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