Inspirational Quotes by John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth.

— John Dryden

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

— John Dryden

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

— John Dryden

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

— John Dryden

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

— John Dryden

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

— John Dryden

Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

— John Dryden

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

— John Dryden

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

— John Dryden

None but the brave deserve the fair.

— John Dryden

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric...

— John Dryden

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

— John Dryden

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

— John Dryden

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

— John Dryden

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed…

— John Dryden

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.

— John Dryden

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

— John Dryden

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

— John Dryden

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

— John Dryden

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.

— John Dryden

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

— John Dryden

The wretched have no friends.

— John Dryden

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

— John Dryden

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

— John Dryden

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

— John Dryden