Quote

When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

John Dryden

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Dryden
Age: 68 †
Born: 1631
Born: August 7
Died: 1700
Died: May 12
Hymnwriter
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Aldwincle
Northamptonshire
Long
Men
Life
Deliberate
Debate
Judge
Judging

More quotes by John Dryden

Image
The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!
John Dryden
Image
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
John Dryden
Image
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
John Dryden
Image
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
John Dryden
Image
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
John Dryden
Image
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
John Dryden
Image
Order is the greatest grace.
John Dryden
Image
A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.
John Dryden
Image
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
John Dryden
Image
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
John Dryden
Image
Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit.
John Dryden
Image
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.
John Dryden
Image
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
John Dryden
Image
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
Image
For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be paid, And infinite with infinite be weighed.
John Dryden
Image
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
John Dryden
Image
I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.
John Dryden
Image
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
John Dryden
Image
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.
John Dryden
Image
Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.
John Dryden