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167 Famous Quotes by John Dryden
8/9/1631 - 5/12/1700
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Education Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)

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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Dreams Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Fables--The Cock and the Fox (l. 325)

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There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!

Insanity Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Spanish Friar (act II, st. 1)

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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.

Secrecy Quotes, by John Dryden

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Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.

Lying Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Absalom and Achitophel

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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Boldness Quotes, by John Dryden

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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.

Tenderness Quotes, by John Dryden

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Beware the fury of a patient man.

Proverbs Quotes, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , Source: Palamon and Arcite (bk. III, l. 1405)

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By education most have been misled.

Education Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education Quotes, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , Source: The Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 47)

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Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

Courage Quotes, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , Source: Astroea Redux (l. 7)

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Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.

Heaven Quotes, by John Dryden , 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, by John Dryden , Source: The Spanish Friar (act V, sc. 2)

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