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John Dryden19 quotes
Look round the habitable world! how few
Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue. — John Dryden · 1693Great wits are sure to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. — John Dryden · 1681For who can be secure of private right,
If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?
Nor is the people's judgement always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few. — John Dryden · 1681Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are. — John Dryden · 1669Death in itself is nothing, but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where. — John Dryden · 1675There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know! — John Dryden · 1680All 19 quotes →Thomas Fuller (churchman)5 quotes
It is always darkest just before the day dawneth. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1650Familiarity breeds contempt. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1654Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1642Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate... Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1642Light (God's eldest daughter), is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1642