~ John Dryden Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

I'll habits gather by unseen degrees As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas.

[MysteRy]

All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.

[MysteRy]

For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.

[MysteRy]

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.

[MysteRy]

Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

[MysteRy]

But far more numerous was the herd of stfch Who think too little and who talk too much.

[MysteRy]

Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.

[MysteRy]

I'm a little wounded but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

[MysteRy]

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.

[MysteRy]

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 liv'd today.

[MysteRy]

Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.