Spirituality Quotes by John Dryden

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

— John Dryden

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

— John Dryden

Possess your soul with patience.

— John Dryden

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

— John Dryden

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

— John Dryden

Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.

— John Dryden

I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

— John Dryden

A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot…

— John Dryden

The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer…

— John Dryden

While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with…

— John Dryden

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force…

— John Dryden

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off,…

— John Dryden

A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay: And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot…

— John Dryden

“Dim as the borrowed beams of moons and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travelers, Is Reason to the soul; and, as on…

— John Dryden

Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been…

— John Dryden