John Dryden Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Love is not in our choice but in our fate.”

“And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.”

“There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.”

“Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.”

“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”

“Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.”

“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”

“Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.”

“Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.”

“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”