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Famous John Dryden Quotes
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
“Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes
“Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume V: Poems, 1697
“So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.”
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
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”