For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think? John Dryden More Quotes by John Dryden More Quotes From John Dryden Sure there is none but fears a future state; John Dryden tongue eternity heart Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son. John Dryden issues done son When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear. John Dryden pears autumn joy He who proposes to be an author should first be a student. John Dryden authorship students firsts Deathless laurel is the victor's due. John Dryden victors laurels fame All, as they say, that glitters is not gold. John Dryden glitter appearance gold That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave. John Dryden treasure soul brave Lucky men are favorites of Heaven. John Dryden lucky men heaven If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave. John Dryden slave vices art They first condemn that first advised the ill. John Dryden ill advice firsts When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure. John Dryden causes views ideas If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best. John Dryden faithful succeed lord Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past. John Dryden length haste past The bravest men are subject most to chance. John Dryden chance bravery men Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance. John Dryden opinion giving enemy To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense. John Dryden common-sense education son A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind. John Dryden faith bears mind The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action. John Dryden vehemence play drama I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. John Dryden may drama enemy Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain. John Dryden broken love-is children
