Inspirational Quotes by John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

— John Dryden

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

— John Dryden

Possess your soul with patience.

— John Dryden

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

— John Dryden

None but the brave deserve the fair.

— John Dryden

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

— John Dryden

By education most have been misled.

— John Dryden

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast

— John Dryden

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

— John Dryden

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

— 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

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

— John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth.

— John Dryden

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

— John Dryden

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

— John Dryden

The conscience of a people is their power.

— John Dryden

All authors to their own defects are blind.

— John Dryden

He made all countries where he came his own.

— John Dryden

Silence in times of suffering is the best.

— John Dryden

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

— John Dryden

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

— John Dryden

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

— John Dryden

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

— John Dryden

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

— John Dryden

Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

— John Dryden

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

— John Dryden

The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.

— John Dryden

All empire is no more than power in trust.

— John Dryden

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

— John Dryden