A biography for John Drydenhasn’t been written yet.
“God never made His work for man to mend.”
“There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.”
“Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.”
“Welcome, thou kind deceiver!Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key,Dost open life, and, unperceived by us,Even steal us from ourselves.”
“To die is landing on some distant shore.”
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
“The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.”
“Love is not in our choice but in our fate.”
“If others in the same Glass better see 'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me: For my Salvation must its Doom receive Not from what others, but what I believe.”
“Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.”
“But love's a malady without a cure.”
“Even victors are by victories undone.”
“If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.”
“Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.”
“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
“I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again”
“The first is the law, the last prerogative.”
“Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.”