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Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

John Dryden

Art, Rocks, Wrecks

'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 2, l. 486

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Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

John Dryden

Farewell, Thinking, Littles

1684 'To the Memory of Mr Oldham'. John Oldham was the author of Satires upon the Jesuits (1681).

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If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

John Dryden

Giving, Want, Poverty

John Dryden (1822). “Fables, from Boccaccio and Chaucer”, p.259

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Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

John Dryden

Brave, Unjust, Ruins

John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden, with notes and a life of the author by sir W. Scott”, p.325

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Death only this mysterious truth unfolds,
The mighty soul how small a body holds.

John Dryden

Death, Soul, Body

John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.366, Oxford University Press, USA

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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

John Dryden

Success, Strong, Opportunity

'The Conquest of Granada' (1670) pt. 2, act 4, sc. 3

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He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

John Dryden

Men, Secret, Secrecy

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Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

John Dryden

Giving, Enemy, Opinion

John Dryden (1808). “Prose works”, p.474

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He made all countries where he came his own.

John Dryden

Country, Country Love, Made

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.30

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

John Dryden

Happiness, Men, Today

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

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Like pilgrims to th' 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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Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

John Dryden

Life, Ties, Laughing

'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 2, l. 148.

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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

John Dryden

Humility, Virtue, Prime

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.185

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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

John Dryden

Drinking, Army, Soldier

'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated.

John Dryden

Philosophy, School, Science

John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.4055, Delphi Classics

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The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

John Dryden

Dream, Prayer, Men

'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 238

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Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

John Dryden

Past, Hours, Pow

John Dryden (1767). “THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND”, p.364

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Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.

John Dryden

Friendship, Men, Long

John Dryden (1855). “The Poetical Works”, p.184

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She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

John Dryden

Beauty, Summer, Flower

John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3032, Delphi Classics

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Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

John Dryden

Writing, Learning, Wells

John Dryden (1855). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.93

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When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon
But small, appear most long and terrible;
So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,
Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds,
Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death,
Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons.
Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice,
Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves:
Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus,
While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff,
And sweat with an Imagination's weight.

John Dryden

Fear, Fate, Son

"Dramatik Works".

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Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

John Dryden

Nice, Honor, Soil

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Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.

John Dryden

Faith, Light, Saws

John Dryden (1682*). “Religio laici, or A laymans faith, a poem”, p.5

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Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

John Dryden

Responsibility, Thinking, Democracy

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Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

John Dryden

Needs, Impossible, Fame

John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.256

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