There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know!
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Author
John Dryden
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Author Summary
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
Books and titles linked to this author
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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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.
Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.
I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
For Art may err but Nature cannot miss.
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.
Chaucer I confess is a rough diamond and must be polished e'er he shines.
Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.
Every inch that is not fool is rogue.
All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.
None but the brave deserve the fair.
Fortune befriends the bold.
Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
None but the brave deserves the fair.
Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.