John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
cure doctor exercise fee fields health hunt wise
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend;
broke expensive sins wisely
Did wisely from expensive sins refrain, / And never broke the Sabbath, but for gain.
wise fitness health
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
love wise mind
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
wise dice fortune
Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.
wise gambling fool
Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.
men judging long
When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.
freedom democracies-have people
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
heaps
To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.
affect gravity men name solid wanting wit
Those wanting wit affect gravity and go by the name of solid men
affects assumes ears monarch seems shake
With ravished ears / The monarch hears, / Assumes the god, / Affects to nod, / And seems to shake the spheres.
shun struggle
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
danced days witness
Witness ye days and nights, and all ye hours, / That danced away with down upon your feet.
earth kindly welcome
Welcome as kindly showers to the long parched earth.