“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
Fear
“Successful crimes alone are justified.”
AloneAll Quotes by John Dryden
“Love is love's reward.”
Love“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
Jealousy“Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.”
Beauty“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.”
Money“Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”
Alone“War is the trade of Kings.”
War“For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.”
Truth“The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.”
Anger“Successful crimes alone are justified.”
Alone“By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.”
Education“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
Happiness“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
Patience“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
Fear“Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.”
Forgiveness“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”
Love“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
Hope“Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”
Death“Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!”
Future“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”
Poetry