| 167 Famous Quotes by John Dryden
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“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
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“When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.”
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“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 1005)
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“A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Absalom and Actitophel (pt. I, l. 545)
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“Forgiveness to the injured does belong,
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Conquest of Granada (pt. II, act I, sc. 2)
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“With ravish'd ears
The monarch hears,
Assumes the god,
Affects to nod,
And seems to shake the spheres.”
Gods Quotes Source: Alexander's Feast (l. 37)
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“Creator Venus, genial power of love,
The bliss of men below, and gods above!
Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race,
Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place;
For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear,
Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year;
Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly,
Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.”
Gods Quotes Source: Palamon and Arcite (bk. III, l. 1405)
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“By education most have been misled.”
Education Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Education Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.”
Education Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”
Education Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
Education Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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“You know I met you,
Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,
With all the tenderness of wifely love.”
Wives Quotes Source: Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1)
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“Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made a still a blundering kind of melody;
Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. II,, l. 412), "Thick and Thin"
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“For friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.”
Friendship Quotes Source: The Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 47)
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“Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.”
Courage Quotes Source: Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1)
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“Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
Goodness Quotes Source: Juvenal (satire X)
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“A horrid stillness first invades the ear,
And in that silence we the tempest fear.”
Silence Quotes Source: Astroea Redux (l. 7)
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“If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is
work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.”
Silence Quotes Source: Astroea Redux (l. 7)
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“Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.”
Heaven Quotes Source: Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew (l. 15)
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“Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,
Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.”
Heaven Quotes Source: The Spanish Friar (act V, sc. 2)
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“Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
Past Quotes Source: Imitation of Horace (bk. III, ode XXIX, l. 71)
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“And plenty makes us poor.”
Poverty Quotes Source: The Medal (l. 126)
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“Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.”
Poverty Quotes Source: Third Book of Horace (ode 29)
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“The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd:
Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.
His preaching much, but more his practice wrought;
(A living sermon of the truths he taught:)
For this by rules severe his life he squar'd:
That all might see the doctrines which they heard.”
Preaching Quotes Source: Character of a Good Parson (l. 75)
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