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• Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, War, Fighting

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.17

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• Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

  John Dryden

  Humility, Virtue, Prime

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.185

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• Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

  John Dryden

  Reading, Gentleman, Half

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• I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Sweat, Water

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• The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

  John Dryden

  Anger, Men, Elephants

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• The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Answers, Enough

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3608, Delphi Classics

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• Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

  John Dryden

  Taught, Genius, Born

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.256

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• The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

  John Dryden

  Triumph, Praise, Commendation

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.204

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• Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

  John Dryden

  Poetry, Heroic, Human Nature

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• For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear.
  If not the first, the fairest of the year;
  For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours,
  And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers.
  When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun
  The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Flower, Moving

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.273

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• Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife
  Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

  John Dryden

  Life, Sweet, Taught

  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.458

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• Genius must be born, it can't be taught.

  John Dryden

  Genius, Taught, Born

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• Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

  John Dryden

  Courage, Whistling, Being Afraid

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq. in Six Volumes: Volume the sixth. Containing Don Sebastian, King of Portugal. Amphitrion: or, The two sosia's. Cleomenes, The Spartan heroe. King Arthur: or, The British worthy. Love triumphant: or, Nature will prevail”, p.193

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• Men are but children of a larger growth.

  John Dryden

  Children, Men, Growth

  All for Love act 4, sc. 1 (1678)

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• Dead men tell no tales.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Men

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3334, Delphi Classics

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• A fiery soul, which working out its way,
  Fretted the pygmy-body to decay:
  And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
  A daring pilot in extremity;
  Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high
  He sought the storms...

  John Dryden

  Work Out, Soul, Storm

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

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• Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire;
  The World is past its Infant Age:
  Arms and Honour,
  Arms and Honour,
  Set the Martial Mind on Fire,
  And kindle Manly Rage.

  John Dryden

  War, Past, Fire

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

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• That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,)
  By Nature did what was by Law requir'd;
  They, who the written Rule and never known,
  Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone:
  To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead;
  And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.

  John Dryden

  Law, Indictment, Gentiles

  John Dryden (1972). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684”, p.115, Univ of California Press

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• But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.

  John Dryden

  Pain, Dying, Pleasure

  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.465

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• Take the good the gods provide thee.

  John Dryden

  Thee, God Provides, Goods

  John Dryden, “Alexander's Feast; Or, The Power Of Music”

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• Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth.

  John Dryden

  Stars, Moon, Bears

  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.324

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• War is a trade of kings.

  John Dryden

  Kings, War, Trade

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• He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.

  John Dryden

  Want, Praise, Dare

  John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.392

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• Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.

  John Dryden

  Friendship, Men, Long

  John Dryden (1855). “The Poetical Works”, p.184

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• And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

  John Dryden

  Country, Dark, Land

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.181, Pearson Education

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