Best John Dryden Lines
- Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. Politics
- The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man. Afterlife
- For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need. All
- Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. Death
- Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light. Faith
- Desire of greatness is a godlike sin. Desire
- Home is the sacred refuge of our life. Home
- Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power… Cure
- Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage. Age
- My love's a noble madness. Inspirational
- Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence. Charge
- As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes. Harmony
- Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within. Eden
- Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless. Bless
- Either be wholly slaves or wholly free. Free
- Even victors are by victories undone. Even Victors
- The first is the law, the last prerogative. Firsts
- What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty… Choose
- Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. Accord
- The greater part performed achieves the less. Achieve
- To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. Beauty
- All authors to their own defects are blind. All
- The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is… Applause
- Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. Censors
- Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. Anti
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