John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
alone careful coin determine people spend time time-and-time-management valuable
Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.
bless malicious man office proud seldom slave
Fortune, that with malicious joy, Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleas'd to bless
dies heaven man stage
For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage
ancient boast bred fashion manners themselves
Well may they boast themselves an ancient Nation; For they were bred e'er manners were in fashion
lost mankind altered
Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
men good-man want
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
chose discourse nearest rugged verse
And this unpolished rugged verse I chose / As fittest for discourse and nearest prose.
though warm
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm
poor ten thousand torture word
And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.
child thus
And thus the child imposes on the man.
image scattered wide
And, wide as his command, / Scattered his Maker's image through the land.
age genius includes particular studies universal
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies
glorious sons treason
During his office, treason was no crime. / The sons of Belial had a glorious time.
bless dying gave hand
Dying bless the hand that gave the blow.