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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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• My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Thinking, Mad

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

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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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• 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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• 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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• To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

  John Dryden

  Education, Son, Common Sense

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• A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.

  John Dryden

  Faith, Mind, Bears

  John Dryden (1784). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.

  John Dryden

  Talent, Stills, Reformation

  'The Prologue at Oxford, 1680'; prologue to Nathaniel Lee 'Sophonisba' (2nd ed., 1681)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.

  John Dryden

  Jewels, Ugly, Rich

  John Dryden (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations”, p.341

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• How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

  John Dryden

  Running, Destiny, Wind

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.17

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• Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.

  John Dryden

  Reason, Interest, Seems

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1807, Delphi Classics

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• Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

  John Dryden

  Kitchen, Frost, Cost

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.455

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• Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Drinking

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

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• Fortune confounds the wise,
  And when they least expect it turns the dice.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Dice, Fortune

  John Dryden (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.60

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• The winds that never moderation knew,
  Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
  Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

  John Dryden

  Blow, Wind, Joy

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.7

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