If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, /… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,) By Nature did what was by Law requir'd; They, who the written Rule and… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear. If not the first, the fairest of the year; For thee the Graces… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language)… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With… — John Dryden Copy Share
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — John Dryden Copy Share
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. — John Dryden Copy Share
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every… — John Dryden Copy Share
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when… — John Dryden Copy Share
“Night came, but unattended with repose. Alone she came, no sleep their eyes to close. Alone and black she came; no friendly stars arose.” — John Dryden Copy Share
