What did John Dryden mean by: Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind. - John Dryden Poet · England Copy
+ But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Dryden, Leadership, Literature, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Dryden, Harmony, Music, Notes, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace. Feraz Zeid, October 28, 2023December 26, 2023, John Dryden, Strength, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ Ill news is wing’d with fate, and flies apace. Feraz Zeid, October 27, 2023December 26, 2023, John Dryden, Fate, News, Wings, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ Take the good the gods provide thee. Feraz Zeid, July 16, 2023December 12, 2023, John Dryden, God Provides, Goods, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think? Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Dryden, Ease, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Dryden, Grace, Peculiar, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. Feraz Zeid, July 26, 2023December 12, 2023, John Dryden, Blow, Dying, Hand, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
