When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved me better than his life; he lost… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow… — 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 Image
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 Image
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — 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 curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
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 Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
