“But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.”
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
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“Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.”
“He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.”
Source: The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684
“He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.”
Source: Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
“But how can finite grasp Infinity?”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
“As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.”
“Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes
“If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!”
Source: The Works of John Dryden
“Few know the use of life before 'tis past.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden,: The life of John Dryden
“Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume VII: Poems, 1697-1700
Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant
“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
“Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.”
Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq. in Six Volumes: Volume the sixth. Containing Don Sebastian, King of Portugal. Amphitrion: or, The two sosia's. Cleomenes, The Spartan heroe. King Arthur: or, The British worthy. Love triumphant: or, Nature will prevail
“Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.”
“Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.”
“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”
Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end.”
“Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.”
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
“Pity melts the mind to love.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”
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