Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemm.. John Dryden

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Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even; A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?

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John Dryden

Profession: Poet
Nationality: British

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And virtue though in rags will keep me warm.

They think to little who talk to much.

Love is love's reward.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Set all things in their own peculiar place and know that order is the greatest grace.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

And plenty makes us poor.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law the last prerogative.

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