What did John Dryden mean by: He wants worth who dares not praise a foe. John Dryden Poet · England Copy
+ More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Consumption, Desire, Liberty, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Treason is greatest where trust is greatest. Author, July 5, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Betrayal, Loyalty, Trust, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Decay, Freshness, Pity, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Fate, Power, Reversal, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Words are but pictures of our thoughts. Author, June 19, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Cognition, Communication, Representation, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Change, Migration, Nature, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Love, Shame, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Contentment, Ownership, Time, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. François Rabelais Author · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
It’s easier to fight one’s enemies than to get on with one’s friends. Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
