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• None but the brave deserve the fair.

  John Dryden

  Brave, Bravery, Fairs

  Alexander's Feast l. 7 (1697)

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• Time and death shall depart and say in flying
  Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

  John Dryden

  Love, Flying, Dying

  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.104, Univ of California Press

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• Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

  John Dryden

  Running, Rivers, Sea

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.44

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• Take not away the life you cannot give:
  For all things have an equal right to live.

  John Dryden

  Life, Giving, Equal

  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.227

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• Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

  John Dryden

  Life, Kindness, Keys

  'All for Love' (1678) act 5, sc. 1 (of Love)

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• When a man's life is under debate,
  The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

  John Dryden

  Men, Long, Judging

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• Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Fitness, Work

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

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• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

  John Dryden

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Fool

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 968

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• Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Life, Being Happy

  Imitation of Horace bk. 3, ode 29, l. 65 (1685)

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• For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Pain, Gains

  'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 4, sc. 1

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• Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

  John Dryden

  Imagination, Soul, Enthusiasm

  John Dryden (1968). “Saggi critici”

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• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

  John Dryden

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.196

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• Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Understanding, Enthusiasm

  John Dryden, Edmond Malone (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...”, p.349

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• All authors to their own defects are blind.

  John Dryden

  Blind, Authorship, Defects

  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.211

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• The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

  John Dryden

  Nature, Eye, Science

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (1995). “The Poems of John Dryden: 1693-1696”, p.302, Pearson Education

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• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

  John Dryden

  Life, Cheating, People

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• Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

  John Dryden

  Pain, Long, Use

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.123

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• Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

  John Dryden

  Eye, Soul, Spiders

  John Dryden (2014). “Marriage A-La-Mode”, p.47, A&C Black

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• Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

  John Dryden

  Gratitude, Grateful, Errors

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• Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

  John Dryden

  Art, Giving, Painting

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1836). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.332

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• A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.

  John Dryden

  Men, Wind, Water

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• Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

  John Dryden

  Book, Inward, Found

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

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• He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.

  John Dryden

  Years, Looks, Vigor

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.850, Delphi Classics

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• A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

  John Dryden

  Numbness, Lazy, Mind

  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.128

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• 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

  Rain, Fate, 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.349

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