01c. 1666 ADLove reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.John Dryden / quote ↗
02c. 1666 ADLove the sense of right and wrong confounds; / Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds.John Dryden / quote ↗
03c. 1666 ADLove works a different way in different minds, / The fool enlightens and the wise he blinds.John Dryden / quote ↗
04c. 1666 ADMark if his birth makes any difference, if to his words it adds one grain of sense.John Dryden / quote ↗
05c. 1666 ADMen are but children of a larger growth; / Our appetites are apt to change as theirs, / And full as craving too, and full as vain.John Dryden / quote ↗
06c. 1666 ADMonkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces.John Dryden / quote ↗
07c. 1666 ADMore pleased we are to see a river lead / His gentle streams along a flowery mead, / Than from high banks to hear loud torrents roar, / With foamy waters on a muddy shore.John Dryden / quote ↗
08c. 1666 ADPainters draw their nymphs in thin and airy habits, but the weight of gold and of embroideries is reserved for queens and goddesses.John Dryden / quote ↗
10c. 1666 ADPity only with new objects stays, / But with the tedious sight of woe decays.John Dryden / quote ↗
11c. 1666 ADReason's a staff for age when Nature's gone; / But youth is strong enough to walk alone.John Dryden / quote ↗
12c. 1666 ADReason's glimmering ray / Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, / But guide us upward to a better day.John Dryden / quote ↗
13c. 1666 ADSeek not to know what must not be reveal'd; / Joys only flow where fate is most conceal'd; / Too busy man would find his sorrows more, / If future fortunes he should know before; / For by that knowledge of his destiny / He would not live at all, but always die.John Dryden / quote ↗
14c. 1666 ADSeldom contented, often in the wrong, / Hard to be pleased at all, and never long.John Dryden / quote ↗
16c. 1666 ADSoothed with the sound, the king grew vain, / Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes, / And thrice he slew the slain.John Dryden / quote ↗
17c. 1666 ADStiff in opinions, always in the wrong, / Was everything by starts, and nothing long; / But in the course of one revolving moon / Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.John Dryden / quote ↗
18c. 1666 ADStudy thyself; what rank or what degree / The wise Creator hath ordained for thee.John Dryden / quote ↗
19c. 1666 ADSuch only enjoy the country as are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude, and in that case solitude is prepared for them.John Dryden / quote ↗
20c. 1666 ADThe fates but only spin the coarser clue; / The finest of the wool is left for you.John Dryden / quote ↗
23c. 1666 ADThe soul shut up in her dark room, / Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; / But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, / Works all her folly up, and casts it outward / To the world's open view.John Dryden / quote ↗
24c. 1666 AD'Tis not enough when swarming faults are writ, / That here and there are scatter'd sparks of wit.John Dryden / quote ↗
