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• To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.

  John Dryden

  Sex, Grace, Vain

  Mr. Joseph Trapp, Mr. John Dryden, Edmund Smith, Mr. John Crown, Colley Cibber (1721). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. III.”, p.29

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• Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

  John Dryden

  Shining, Lines, Cadence

  "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham" l. 15 (1684)

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• The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.

  John Dryden

  Sex, Curiosity, Maids

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1856). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Containing the Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.404

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• The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.

  John Dryden

  Dine

  "Amphitryon". Play by John Dryden, 1690.

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• For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

  John Dryden

  Mother, Ignorance, Devotion

  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.128, Univ of California Press

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• At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

  John Dryden

  Peace, Party, Home

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.31, Pearson Education

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• We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Mean, Helping

  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.37

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• The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

  John Dryden

  Arms, Trumpets, Loud

  John Dryden (1859). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.4

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• If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

  John Dryden

  Winning, Thinking, Lovely

  John Dryden (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...”, p.219

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• All objects lose by too familiar a view.

  John Dryden

  Views, Literature, Familiar

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2336, Delphi Classics

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• He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

  John Dryden

  Death, Morning, Dying

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

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• Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

  John Dryden

  Buddhist, Anger, Long

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• And plenty makes us poor.

  John Dryden

  Poverty, Poor, Plenty

  John Dryden (1972). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684”, p.47, Univ of California Press

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• Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

  John Dryden

  Winter, Land, Wings

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...”, p.400

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• Honor is but an empty bubble.

  John Dryden

  Honor, Empty, Bubbles

  John Dryden (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.

  John Dryden

  Imagination, Might, Shut Up

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.121

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• Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

  John Dryden

  Nature, Two, Age

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.139

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• Deathless laurel is the victor's due.

  John Dryden

  Fame, Laurels, Victor's

  John Dryden (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.78

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• A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

  John Dryden

  Character, Farce, Action

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• Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

  John Dryden

  Food, Waiting, Cooking

  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”

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• They first condemn that first advised the ill.

  John Dryden

  Advice, Firsts, Ill

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.98

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• What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

  John Dryden

  Birthday, Years, Long

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• The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
  Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd
  Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle],
  And made his torch their universal light.
  So truth, while only one suppli'd the state,
  Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Light, Torches

  John Dryden, John Sargeaunt (1929). “The Poems of John Dryden, Ed., with an Introduction and Textual Notes”

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• Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

  John Dryden

  Rose, Lasts, Sweetness

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.308

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• God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Fitness, Work, Exercise

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

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