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• As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.

  John Dryden

  Foe

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.65, Pearson Education

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• Pity melts the mind to love.

  John Dryden

  Life, Love Life, Mind

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.593, Pearson Education

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• They think too little who talk too much.

  John Dryden

  Thinking, Littles, Too Much

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• Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

  John Dryden

  Parting

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• All delays are dangerous in war.

  John Dryden

  War, Delay, Danger

  'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 1, sc. 1

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• I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

  John Dryden

  Morning, Night, Light

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.458, Pearson Education

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• Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

  John Dryden

  May, Littles, Mysterious

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 1

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• Pride - Lord of human kind

  John Dryden

  Pride, Kind, Lord

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• Sure there is none but fears a future state;
  And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
  Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Tongue, Eternity

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.437

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• Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

  John Dryden

  Justice, May, Murder

  John Dryden, “The Cock And The Fox: Or, The Tale Of The Nun's Priest”

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• These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

  John Dryden

  Doubt, Age, Care

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.426

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• Whatever is, is in its causes just.

  John Dryden

  Justice, Causes

  'Oedipus' (written jointly with Nathaniel Lee, q.v., 1679) act 3, sc. 1

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• Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

  John Dryden

  Past, Hours, Pow

  John Dryden (1767). “THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND”, p.364

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• And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

  John Dryden

  Women, Hunting, Design

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.271

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• Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

  John Dryden

  Silence, Secret, Guilt

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.222

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• With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care.

  John Dryden

  Hair, Oil, Care

  John Dryden (1837). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.379

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• She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

  John Dryden

  Beauty, Summer, Flower

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3032, Delphi Classics

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• The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

  John Dryden

  Heart, Mind, Desert

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ...”, p.255

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• Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend;
  The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Journey

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 883

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• Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

  John Dryden

  Grace And Mercy, Heaven, Attributes

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.187

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• But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.

  John Dryden

  Talent, Stills, Reformation

  'The Prologue at Oxford, 1680'; prologue to Nathaniel Lee 'Sophonisba' (2nd ed., 1681)

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• So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

  John Dryden

  Art, Oxford, London

  'Prologue to the University of Oxon...at the Acting of The Silent Woman' (1673)

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• Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

  John Dryden

  Drinking, Army, Soldier

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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• The Jews, a headstrong, moody, murmuring race.

  John Dryden

  Race, Murmuring, Headstrong

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.45.

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• Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

  John Dryden

  Mind, Virtue, Weak

  'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 3, sc. 1

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