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“Silence in times of suffering is the best.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation
Source: John Dryden
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
Source: The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy
“Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.”
“Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations
“Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.”
Source: Dramatic works
“With how much ease believe we what we wish!”
Source: Alexander the Great, Or, the Rival Queens. A Tragedy
“Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe
“Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation
“Order is the greatest grace.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“Possess your soul with patience.”
Source: The Poems of John Dryden
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...
“Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works
“But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.”
“A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.”
Source: All for Love
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.”
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir
“Second thoughts, they say, are best.”
Source: A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV.
“One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.”
“Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.”
Source: Virgil: the Eclogues
“Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.”
Source: The Major Works
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Containing the Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir
“So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.”
Source: The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy
“The wretched have no friends.”
Source: British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
Source: The fables, ornamented with engravings, (by) Lady Diana Beauclerc
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter
Source: Virgil: the Eclogues