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• Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

  John Dryden

  Beautiful, Language, Sometimes

  John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.163, Oxford University Press, USA

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• They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

  John Dryden

  Men, Understanding, Firsts

  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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• 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

  Running, Past, Thinking

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

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• For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

  John Dryden

  Age, Taste, Youth

  John Dryden (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin”, p.260

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• Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Soul, Shields

  John Dryden (1717). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant”, p.37

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• If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?

  John Dryden

  Party, Men, Order

  John Dryden (1797). “The fables, ornamented with engravings, (by) Lady Diana Beauclerc”, p.10

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• Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

  John Dryden

  Sight, Decay, Woe

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1745, Delphi Classics

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• Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

  John Dryden

  Love, Power, Remember

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.132

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• They say everything in the world is good for something.

  John Dryden

  World

  Mr. John Dryden, Mr. Nathaniel Lee (1720). “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. III.”, p.54

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• Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

  John Dryden

  Believe, Grace, Rewards

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• Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

  John Dryden

  Men, Good Man, Want

  'Constantine the Great' (1684) epilogue

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• Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

  John Dryden

  Noble, Fidelity

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes”, p.437

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• Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes...
  Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind
  Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

  John Dryden

  Dream, Forgotten Things, Long

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• How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.

  John Dryden

  Life, Country, Peace

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.312, Delphi Classics

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• An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Past, Sorrow

  John Dryden (1830). “Virgil: the Eclogues”, p.248

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• And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

  John Dryden

  Mind, And Love, Frailty

  'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 2, sc. 2.

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• Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Journey

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 883

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• Love and Time with reverence use,
  Treat them like a parting friend:
  Nor the golden gifts refuse
  Which in youth sincere they send:
  For each year their price is more,
  And they less simple than before.

  John Dryden

  Time, Simple, Years

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2065, Delphi Classics

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• Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

  John Dryden

  Riches, Slave, Claims

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• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

  John Dryden

  Grace, Affection, Goodness

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• For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Needs, Literature

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 1, l. 33

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• Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

  John Dryden

  Weed, Men, Fire

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.305-9.

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• No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

  John Dryden

  Death, Kings, Moments

  John Dryden, “Palamon And Arcite; Or The Knight's Tale. From Chaucer. In Three Books. Book Ii.”

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• The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

  John Dryden

  Heaven, Liberty, Life Is

  John Dryden, George Gilfillan (1857). “Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”

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• Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.

  John Dryden

  Moving, Sea, Wings

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1561, Delphi Classics

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