If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long — Even wondered at, because he… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. — 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
Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying. — 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 World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. — 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
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught. — 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
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