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Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait. John Dryden Picture Quote

Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

— John Dryden

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools. John Dryden Picture Quote

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

— John Dryden

But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain. John Dryden Picture Quote

But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.

— John Dryden

War is a trade of kings. John Dryden Picture Quote

War is a trade of kings.

— John Dryden

For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. John Dryden Picture Quote

For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

— John Dryden

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. John Dryden Picture Quote

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

— John Dryden

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. John Dryden Picture Quote

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

— John Dryden

The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of John Dryden Picture Quote

The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of

— John Dryden

A happy genius is the gift of nature. John Dryden Picture Quote

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

— John Dryden

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne’er will reach an excellence. John Dryden Picture Quote

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne’er will reach an excellence.

— John Dryden

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you. John Dryden Picture Quote

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

— John Dryden

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who John Dryden Picture Quote

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who

— John Dryden

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; John Dryden Picture Quote

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light;

— John Dryden

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind. John Dryden Picture Quote

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

— John Dryden

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast John Dryden Picture Quote

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast

— John Dryden

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at John Dryden Picture Quote

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at

— John Dryden

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and John Dryden Picture Quote

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and

— John Dryden

A knock-down argument; ’tis but a word and a blow. John Dryden Picture Quote

A knock-down argument; ’tis but a word and a blow.

— John Dryden

My right eye itches, some good luck is near. John Dryden Picture Quote

My right eye itches, some good luck is near.

— John Dryden

All authors to their own defects are blind. John Dryden Picture Quote

All authors to their own defects are blind.

— John Dryden

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment John Dryden Picture Quote

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment

— John Dryden

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower’d with arms, deserts John Dryden Picture Quote

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower’d with arms, deserts

— John Dryden

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did John Dryden Picture Quote

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did

— John Dryden

If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest. John Dryden Picture Quote

If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

— John Dryden

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. John Dryden Picture Quote

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

— John Dryden

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. John Dryden Picture Quote

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

— John Dryden

He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green. John Dryden Picture Quote

He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.

— John Dryden

Not Heav’n itself upon the past has pow’r; But what has been, John Dryden Picture Quote

Not Heav’n itself upon the past has pow’r; But what has been,

— John Dryden

Music is inarticulate poesy. John Dryden Picture Quote

Music is inarticulate poesy.

— John Dryden

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath John Dryden Picture Quote

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath

— John Dryden

If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it John Dryden Picture Quote

If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it

— John Dryden

The people’s prayer, the glad diviner’s theme, The young men’s vision, and John Dryden Picture Quote

The people’s prayer, the glad diviner’s theme, The young men’s vision, and

— John Dryden

And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. John Dryden Picture Quote

And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

— John Dryden

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul John Dryden Picture Quote

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul

— John Dryden

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student. John Dryden Picture Quote

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

— John Dryden

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the John Dryden Picture Quote

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the

— John Dryden

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours. John Dryden Picture Quote

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

— John Dryden

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying. John Dryden Picture Quote

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

— John Dryden

None are so busy as the fool and the knave. John Dryden Picture Quote

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

— John Dryden

When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear. John Dryden Picture Quote

When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.

— John Dryden

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