Best John Dryden Proverbs
- Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy… Bend
- In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was… Begin
- Second thoughts, they say, are best. Best
- One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it. Cannot Say
- Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all. All
- And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. Bless
- [T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely,… Action
- Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface… All
- An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate. Benefits
- Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered. Altered
- The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The… Cook
- There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best… Appear
- What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks. Banks
- Repentance is the virtue of weak minds. Mind
- So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade. Art
- The Jews, a headstrong, moody, murmuring race. Headstrong
- From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The… All
- Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the… Altered
- But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires. Biased
- The wretched have no friends. Friends
- The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart,… Acts
- If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say… All
- I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty. Fat
- As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every… Ark
- Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words. All
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