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• I learn to pity woes so like my own.

  John Dryden

  Woe, Pity, My Own

  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.298

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• Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

  John Dryden

  Light, Sight, Scripture

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.282, Pearson Education

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• We by art unteach what Nature taught.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Taught

  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.30, Univ of California Press

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• Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

  John Dryden

  Literature, Madness, Wit

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 150

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• When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! 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

  Life, Running, Lying

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

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• Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

  John Dryden

  Revenge, Night, Mind

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• An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Silence, Ears

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• All heiresses are beautiful.

  John Dryden

  Beauty, Beautiful, Cynical

  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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• All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

  John Dryden

  Gold, Glitter, Appearance

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.438, Pearson Education

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• Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

  John Dryden

  Real, Essence, Fiction

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The works of John Dryden in verse and prose”, p.329

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• Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Rags, Arms

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.189

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• If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

  John Dryden

  Gratitude, Sweet, Past

  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.251

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• Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

  John Dryden

  May, Oblivion, Crime

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.26

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• But how can finite grasp Infinity?

  John Dryden

  Infinity, Finite

  John Dryden (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.20

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• Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

  John Dryden

  Flow, Domes, Fit

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.219, Pearson Education

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• But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

  John Dryden

  Leadership, Thinking, Literature

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 533

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• He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

  John Dryden

  Victory, Would Be, Poet

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Ben Jonson

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• They that possess the prince possess the laws.

  John Dryden

  Law, Political, Politics

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

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• Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

  John Dryden

  Men, Heaven, Lucky

  John Dryden (1993). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV: Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication”, p.116, Univ of California Press

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• Hushed as midnight silence.

  John Dryden

  Silence, Midnight

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes”, p.42

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• None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

  John Dryden

  Knaves, Fool, Busy

  John Dryden, “The Medal”

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• Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

  John Dryden

  Firsts, Fame, Sped

  John Dryden (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works ; Now First Collected, with Notes and Illustrations”, p.226

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• Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

  John Dryden

  Rocks, Sculpture, Natural

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• The winds are out of breath.

  John Dryden

  Wind, Breaths

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• Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

  John Dryden

  Greek, Bitter, Satire

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