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• Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

  John Dryden

  Love, Life, Breakup

  'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 4, sc. 1

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• What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

  John Dryden

  Spring, Heart, Fate

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 3.

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• A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

  John Dryden

  Passion, Men, Cheated

  John Dryden (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin”, p.139

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• Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

  John Dryden

  Father, Writing, Patterns

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

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• For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

  John Dryden

  Children, Secret, Tools

  'Sir Martin Mar-All' (1667) act 2, sc. 2

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• Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today:
  Be fair or foul or rain or shine,
  The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine.
  Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
  But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  "The Major Works".

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• Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

  John Dryden

  Running, Time, Race

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.837.

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• They live too long who happiness outlive.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Long

  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.84, Univ of California Press

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• Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
  Made still a blundering kind of melody;
  Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
  Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
  Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
  And in one word, heroically mad.

  John Dryden

  Knowing, Mad, Poetry

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.69

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• Repentance is but want of power to sin.

  John Dryden

  Power, Want, Sin

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 813

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• Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

  John Dryden

  Tyrants, Mind

  'Love Triumphant' (1694) act 3, sc. 1 'Song of Jealousy'

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• Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

  John Dryden

  Mother, Eye, Men

  John Dryden, George Rapall Noyes (1950). “The poetical works of Dryden”

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• Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

  John Dryden

  Mean, Ignorant, World

  John Dryden (1750). “Select essays on the belles lettres”, p.95

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• How happy the lover,
  How easy his chain,
  How pleasing his pain,
  How sweet to discover
  He sighs not in vain.

  John Dryden

  Life, Sweet, Pain

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.372

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• Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

  John Dryden

  God, Devil, Usual

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• Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Land, Sole

  'Threnodia Augustalis' (1685) st. 10

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• Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

  John Dryden

  Joy, Watches, Youth

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “Dramatic works”, p.228

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• To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

  John Dryden

  Evil, Common, Nonsense

  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.334

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• Merit challenges envy.

  John Dryden

  Envy, Challenges, Merit

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• Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

  John Dryden

  Dream, Sleep, Fancy

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.362

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• And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.

  John Dryden

  Scripture, Corruption, Clear

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.294, Pearson Education

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• Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Lying, Evil

  John Dryden (1750). “Select Essays on the Belles Lettres”, p.314

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• What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?

  John Dryden

  Track, Tears, Dew

  John Dryden (1904*). “John Dryden”

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• All empire is no more than power in trust.

  John Dryden

  Power, Empires

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 411

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• We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

  John Dryden

  Wicked, Wickedness, Misery

  Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Dryden, Alexander Pope (1783). “The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy”, p.153

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