200 ordspråk av John Dryden

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John Dryden föddes den August 19th 1631 och dog den 1 May 1700 - of Literacy.
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 Beware of the fury of the patient man

 Beware the fury of a patient man.

 Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.

 Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

 Born a shapeless lump, like Anarchy.

 But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

 But love's a malady without a cure.

 By education most have been misled; so they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, and thus the child imposes on the man.

 By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

 Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

 Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

 Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet.

 Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader

 Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

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


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