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• But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

  John Dryden

  Love, Ambition, Ice

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.53

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• A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

  John Dryden

  Men, Brave, Quarrels

  John Dryden (2014). “All for Love”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

  John Dryden

  Fortune, Ill

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.143

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• A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

  John Dryden

  Husband, Men, Wife

  'On Settle'

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• And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

  John Dryden

  Blow, Hands, Dying

  'The Spanish Friar' (1681) act 2, sc. 2

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• Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

  John Dryden

  Home, Sacred, Refuge

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden,: The life of John Dryden”, p.214

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• Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

  John Dryden

  Society, Politics, Ruins

  Absalom and Achitophel pt. 1, l. 173 (1681)

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• …So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

  John Dryden

  Sky, Crumbling, Lasts

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day' (1687) 'Grand Chorus'

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• Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.

  John Dryden

  Spring, Hands, Mind

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.186

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• When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

  John Dryden

  Love, Fire, Blood

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.432

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• Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

  John Dryden

  Fate, Joy, Sorrow

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• To die is landing on some distant shore.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Nature

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• Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.

  John Dryden

  Fall, Government, Length

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.793-4.

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• The greater part performed achieves the less.

  John Dryden

  Success, Achieve, Greater

  John Dryden (1808). “Poetical works”, p.106

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• For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

  John Dryden

  Gossip, Sun, Compare

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• Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

  John Dryden

  Children, Love Is, Broken

  John Dryden (1985). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida”, p.294, Univ of California Press

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• I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.

  John Dryden

  Drama, Enemy, May

  John Dryden (1970). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume X: Plays: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, An Evening's Love”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Gambling, Spiders

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.123

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• Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

  John Dryden

  Criticism, Ill

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1856). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Containing the Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.284

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• God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

  John Dryden

  Men, Rights, Self

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• The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.

  John Dryden

  Drama, Play, Vehemence

  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.379

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• The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Too Much, Mines

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.746, Pearson Education

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• Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

  John Dryden

  Kings, Fate, Dice

  Works Volume XV, 1821 Edition (p. 103)

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• Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.

  John Dryden

  Judging, Criticism, Delight

  John Dryden (1995). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe”, p.87, Univ of California Press

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• Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

  John Dryden

  Secret, Favors, Fairy

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