A biography for John Drydenhasn’t been written yet.
“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
“They that possess the prince possess the laws.”
“He who would search for pearls must dive below.”
“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”
“War is the trade of Kings.”
“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.”
“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
“But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”
“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”
“But far more numerous was the herd of such,Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
“Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.”
“For they conquer who believe they can.”
“Honor is but an empty bubble.”
“And plenty makes us poor.”
“Repentance is but want of power to sin.”
“The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.”
“Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.”
“Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.”