John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
errors pearls straws
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
love educational philosophy
Love is love's reward.
reality literature our-thoughts
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
love fate choices
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
kings war trade
War is the trade of kings.
men anxious-thoughts worry
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
party men order
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
kings political plot
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
death fear knows
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
order grace peculiar
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
pain gains pleasure
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
death woe kind
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
revenge night mind
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
want unknowing
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.