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• All the learn'd are cowards by profession.

  John Dryden

  Coward, Profession

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 5.

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• New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

  John Dryden

  Coquette, Plight, Vow

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.28

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• Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!

  John Dryden

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  John Dryden (1808). “Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love”, p.393

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• Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

  John Dryden

  Life, Night, Joy

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.146

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• Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

  John Dryden

  Farewell, Thinking, Littles

  1684 'To the Memory of Mr Oldham'. John Oldham was the author of Satires upon the Jesuits (1681).

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• If we from wealth to poverty descend,
  Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

  John Dryden

  Giving, Want, Poverty

  John Dryden (1822). “Fables, from Boccaccio and Chaucer”, p.259

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• Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

  John Dryden

  Brave, Unjust, Ruins

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden, with notes and a life of the author by sir W. Scott”, p.325

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• Death only this mysterious truth unfolds,
  The mighty soul how small a body holds.

  John Dryden

  Death, Soul, Body

  John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.366, Oxford University Press, USA

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• He made all countries where he came his own.

  John Dryden

  Country, Country Love, Made

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.30

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• How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

  John Dryden

  Running, Destiny, Wind

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.17

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• An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.

  John Dryden

  Jewels, Ugly, Rich

  John Dryden (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations”, p.341

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• Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

  John Dryden

  Kitchen, Frost, Cost

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.455

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• Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.

  John Dryden

  Reason, Interest, Seems

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1807, Delphi Classics

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• I learn to pity woes so like my own.

  John Dryden

  Woe, Pity, My Own

  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.298

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• Fortune confounds the wise,
  And when they least expect it turns the dice.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Dice, Fortune

  John Dryden (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.60

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• The winds that never moderation knew,
  Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
  Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

  John Dryden

  Blow, Wind, Joy

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.7

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• Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Drinking

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

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• Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

  John Dryden

  Light, Sight, Scripture

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.282, Pearson Education

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• We by art unteach what Nature taught.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Taught

  John Dryden, John Loftis, Vinton A. Dearing (1967). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume IX: Plays: The Indian Emperour, Secret Love, Sir Martin Mar-all”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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

  John Dryden

  Literature, Madness, Wit

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 150

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• When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

  John Dryden

  Life, Running, Lying

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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• Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

  John Dryden

  Real, Essence, Fiction

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The works of John Dryden in verse and prose”, p.329

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• All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

  John Dryden

  Gold, Glitter, Appearance

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.438, Pearson Education

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• If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

  John Dryden

  Gratitude, Sweet, Past

  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.251

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• Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

  John Dryden

  May, Oblivion, Crime

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.26

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