Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Author
John Dryden
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About John Dryden on QuoteMust
John Dryden currently has 68 indexed quotes and 9 linked works on QuoteMust. This page is the canonical destination for that author archive.
Works
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Absalom and Achitophel
All for Love
Aureng-Zebe
Four Plays by Dryden: The Conquest of Granada parts 1 and 2, Marriage-a-la-Mode, and The Assignation
Oedipus: A Tragedy
The critical and miscellaneous prose works of John Dryden, now first collected
The Hind and the Panther
The Major Works
The Spanish Fryar, Or, the Double Discovery: A Tragi-Comedy
Quotes
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
Love is love's reward.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
But love's a malady without a cure.
War is the trade of Kings.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
_So when the last and dreadful hourThis crumbling pageant shall devour,The trumpet shall be heard on high,The dead shall live, the living die,And Music shall untune the sky
War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.
War is the trade of kings.
I'll habits gather by unseen degrees As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas.
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.
For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.
But far more numerous was the herd of stfch Who think too little and who talk too much.
They conquer who believe they can.