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• The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

  John Dryden

  Scum, Nations

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• Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.

  John Dryden

  Sex, Lying, Wife

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

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• Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

  John Dryden

  Stupid, Tired, Eagles

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.344

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• A happy genius is the gift of nature.

  John Dryden

  Genius

  John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.61, Univ of California Press

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• I am as free as nature first made man,
  Ere the base laws of servitude began,
  When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Men, Law

  The Conquest of Granada pt. 1, act 1, sc. 1 (1670)

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• Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Boldness And Courage, Mask

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• By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

  John Dryden

  Children, Lying, Believe

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 389

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• Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

  John Dryden

  Resolve, Performances

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• Presence of mind and courage in distress,
  Are more than arrives to procure success?

  John Dryden

  Military, Presence Of Mind, Mind

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• While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

  John Dryden

  Lying, Grief, Eye

  John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.86

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• Love is love's reward.

  John Dryden

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

  John Dryden (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.88

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• Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

  John Dryden

  Betrayal, Ice, Way

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• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

  John Dryden

  Love, Grace, Literature

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• Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

  John Dryden

  Birthday, Strong, Age

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• Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Numbers, Grows

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.171

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• There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

  John Dryden

  Depression, Mad, Insanity

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• When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;
  Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;
  Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay.
  Tomorrow's falser than the former day.

  John Dryden

  Life, Men, Thinking

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2746, Delphi Classics

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• Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

  John Dryden

  Tears, Contagion

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 1.

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• Beware the fury of a patient man.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Christian, Wise

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 1005

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• But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

  John Dryden

  Mean, Hands, Pimp

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.79-81.

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• Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

  John Dryden

  War, Son, Soul

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• A woman's counsel brought us first to woe,
  And made her man his paradise forego,
  Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been
  As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

  John Dryden

  Women, Heart, Sorrow

  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.243

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• Few know the use of life before 'tis past.

  John Dryden

  Past, Use, Knows

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden,: The life of John Dryden”, p.228

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• Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

  John Dryden

  Forgiveness, Doe, Done

  'The Conquest of Granada' (1670) pt. 2, act 1, sc. 2

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• Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

  John Dryden

  Love, Power, Grows

  'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

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