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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

John Dryden

Death, Body, Spirit

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From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead!' Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

John Dryden

Men, Order, Voice

'A Song for St Cecilia's Day' (1687) st. 1

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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

John Dryden

Revenge, Cry, Arise

John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.595, Pearson Education

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Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

John Dryden

Past, Haste, Length

John Dryden (2002). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume VII: Poems, 1697-1700”, p.258, Univ of California Press

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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

John Dryden

Blind, Zeal, Conductor

John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.479, Pearson Education

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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.

John Dryden

Lying, Cutting, Thinking

John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.241

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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.

John Dryden

Bravery, Pairs, Fairs

Alexander's Feast l. 7 (1697)

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Love either finds equality or makes it.

John Dryden

Love, Marriage, Best Love

John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.490

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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

John Dryden

Ideas, Views, Causes

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.312

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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.

John Dryden

Sweet, Flower, Sun

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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

John Dryden

Failure, People, Action

'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 723

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Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

John Dryden

Age

1677 'The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic Licence', an essay prefacing State of Innocence, a libretto based on Paradise Lost.

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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

John Dryden

Atheist, Vices, Triumph

John Dryden (1998). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

John Dryden

Time, Writing, Brass

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.77

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Possess your soul with patience.

John Dryden

Patience, Soul, Your Soul

John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

John Dryden

Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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There is a proud modesty in merit.

John Dryden

Proud, Merit, Modesty

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.129

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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

John Dryden

Light, Giving, Suffering

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.124

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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

Death, Fear, Knows

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

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War is the trade of kings.

John Dryden

Kings, War, President

'King Arthur' (1691) act 2, sc. 2

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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

John Dryden

Passion, Doe, Reason

John Dryden (1962). “The Works of John Dryden”

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He who would search for pearls must dive below.

John Dryden

Errors, Pearls, Straws

'All for Love' (1678) prologue

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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.

John Dryden

Perfection, Needs, Impossible

John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.604

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Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden

Freedom, Democracies Have, People

John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.113

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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

John Dryden

Good Life, Mean, Use

John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.185

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Born: August 9, 1631
Died: May 12, 1700
Occupation: Poet
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