01c. 1666 ADDamn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, / Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red-herring.John Dryden / quote ↗
02c. 1666 ADDeserted, at his utmost need, / By those his former bounty fed, / On the bare earth exposed be lies, / With not a friend to close his eyes.John Dryden / quote ↗
04c. 1666 ADDivines but peep on undiscovered worlds, / And draw the distant landscape as they please.John Dryden / quote ↗
05c. 1666 ADDreams are but interludes which fancy makes. / When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes; / Compounds a medley of disjointed things, / A mob of cobblers and a court of kings; / Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad; / Both are the reasonable soul run mad.John Dryden / quote ↗
06c. 1666 ADFear's a large promiser; who subject live / To that base passion, know not what they give.John Dryden / quote ↗
07c. 1666 ADFlames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar / In one bright flame, and then return no more.John Dryden / quote ↗
09c. 1666 ADFor truth has such a face and such a mien, / As to be loved needs only to be seen.John Dryden / quote ↗
10c. 1666 ADFrom stratagem to stratagem we run, / And he knows most who latest is undone; / An honest man will take a knave's advice, / But idiots only will be cozened twice.John Dryden / quote ↗
11c. 1666 ADGo, miser, go; for lucre sell thy soul; / Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole. / That men may say, when thou art dead and gone: / "See what a vast estate he left his son!"John Dryden / quote ↗
13c. 1666 ADGood-sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise.John Dryden / quote ↗
14c. 1666 ADGreat souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.John Dryden / quote ↗
16c. 1666 ADHe trudged along, unknowing what he sought, / And whistled as he went, for want of thought.John Dryden / quote ↗
17c. 1666 ADHe was exhaled; his great Creator drew / His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.John Dryden / quote ↗
19c. 1666 ADIt is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.John Dryden / quote ↗
20c. 1666 ADKeep to your subject close in all you say; / Nor for a sounding sentence ever stray.John Dryden / quote ↗
21c. 1666 ADKindness by secret sympathy is tied; / For noble souls in nature are allied.John Dryden / quote ↗
22c. 1666 ADKings' titles commonly begin by force, / Which time wears off, and mellows on to right.John Dryden / quote ↗
23c. 1666 ADLet thy great deeds force fate to change her mind; / He that courts fortune boldly, makes her kind.John Dryden / quote ↗
24c. 1666 ADLightning and thunder (heaven's artillery) / As harbingers before th' Almighty fly: / Those but proclaim His style, and disappear; / The stiller sounds succeed, and God is there.John Dryden / quote ↗
