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Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.
-John Dryden
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Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
-John Dryden
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Bravery
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Fortune befriends the bold.
-John Dryden
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Career, Vocation
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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
-John Dryden
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Confidence
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For they conquer who believe they can.
-John Dryden
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Conformity & Nonconformity
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For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
-John Dryden
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Contentment
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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 lived today.
-John Dryden
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Crime
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Successful crimes alone are justified.
-John Dryden
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Death
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
-John Dryden
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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
-John Dryden
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To die is landing on some distant shore.
-John Dryden
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Decisions
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
-John Dryden
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Divorce
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We lov'd, and we lov'd as long as we could
Til our love was lov'd out in us both;
But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure has fled:
'Twas pleasure that made it an oath.
-John Dryden, Marriage
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Endurance
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Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
-John Dryden
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Envy / Jealousy
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
-John Dryden
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Fanaticism
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
-John Dryden
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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
-John Dryden
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Fashion
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Nor is the people's judgement always true;
The most may err as grossly as the few.
-John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I. 781
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Fate & Destiny
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All human things are subject to decay,
And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey;
This Flecknoe found, who like Augustus young
Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long:
In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute
Through all the realms of nonsense, absolute.
-John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
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Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
-John Dryden
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Fear
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
-John Dryden
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Forgiveness
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Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
-John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, 1687
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
-John Dryden
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Fortune
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
-John Dryden
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Future, The
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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
-John Dryden
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Books by and about John Dryden