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
Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind… — 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
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle… — 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
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, /… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an… — 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
