“Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.”
Quote by John Dryden
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John Dryden
John Dryden, born on August 9, 1631, and died on May 12, 1700, was a prominent English poet and dramatist of the 17th century. His works have had a profound impact on English literature, particularly in the field of drama, and he is considered one of the founders of English drama. more
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“A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
“There is a proud modesty in merit.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
“It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.”
“Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.”
Source: The Poems of John Dryden: 1693-1696
“Among our crimes oblivion may be set.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes
“Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems