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• There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best understands their force. This diction of his, I must once again say, is never to be copied; and since it cannot, he will appear but lame in the best translation.

  John Dryden

  Giving, Grace, Diction

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.129

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• It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.

  John Dryden

  Beautiful, Latin, Expression

  "William Gilbert of Colchester". Book by P. Fleury Mottelay, 1893.

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• Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

  John Dryden

  Lost, Mankind, Altered

  John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.563, Oxford University Press, USA

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• One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.

  John Dryden

  Wit, Frugal, Wanted

  1668 Of Ben Jonson. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.

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• He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

  John Dryden

  Men, Secret, Secrecy

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• Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
  And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

  John Dryden

  Life, Ties, Laughing

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 2, l. 148.

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• Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

  John Dryden

  Success, Strong, Opportunity

  'The Conquest of Granada' (1670) pt. 2, act 4, sc. 3

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• The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

  John Dryden

  Dream, Prayer, Men

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 238

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• My right eye itches, some good luck is near.

  John Dryden

  Good Luck, Eye, Luck

  John Dryden (1972). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684”, p.377, Univ of California Press

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• To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

  John Dryden

  Education, Son, Common Sense

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• Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

  John Dryden

  Giving, Enemy, Opinion

  John Dryden (1808). “Prose works”, p.474

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• Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

  John Dryden

  Responsibility, Thinking, Democracy

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• Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

  John Dryden

  Nice, Honor, Soil

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• All habits gather by unseen degrees.

  John Dryden

  Unseen, Degrees, Habit

  "Wit for Wisdom". Book by Kevin Solway, www.theabsolute.net.

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• A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

  John Dryden

  Blow, Argument

  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.19

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• For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.

  John Dryden

  Long, Driven, Length

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.1024-5.

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• Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated.

  John Dryden

  Philosophy, School, Science

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.4055, Delphi Classics

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• Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Learning, Wells

  John Dryden (1855). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.93

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• O freedom, first delight of human kind!

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Delight, Firsts

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.468

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• I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

  John Dryden

  Men, Thinking, Wish

  'The Rival Ladies' (1664) act 3, sc. 1

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• Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Pleasure

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

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• Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

  John Dryden

  Strength, Being Strong, Strong

  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.135

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• Order is the greatest grace.

  John Dryden

  Order, Grace

  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.417

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• Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

  John Dryden

  Art, Rocks, Wrecks

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 2, l. 486

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• not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.

  John Dryden

  Judging, Interest, Settings

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.110

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