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• If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

  John Dryden

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

  William Whitehead, Mr. John Crown, Mr. John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe (1720). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV.”, p.48

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• For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.

  John Dryden

  Faith, Mysterious Things, Heaven

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.399, Pearson Education

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• My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.

  John Dryden

  Dream, Love And Friendship, Golden

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 5.

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• A coward is the kindest animal;
  'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight.

  John Dryden

  Fighting, Animal, Forgiving

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• The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

  John Dryden

  Dying, Complaining, Woe

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.141

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• Second thoughts, they say, are best.

  John Dryden

  Second Thoughts

  William Whitehead, Mr. John Crown, Mr. John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe (1720). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV.”, p.37

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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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• Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go,
  And view the ocean leaning on the sky:
  From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know,
  And on the Lunar world securely pry.

  John Dryden

  Ocean, Science, Moon

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.66

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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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• Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.

  John Dryden

  Son, Issues, Done

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

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• Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

  John Dryden

  Men, Office, Proud

  John Dryden (1859). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.177

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• The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

  John Dryden

  Men, Bravery, Honor

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• Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

  John Dryden

  Men, Light, Heaven

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• Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

  John Dryden

  Guilt, Form

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”

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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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• What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

  John Dryden

  Running, Giving, Judgment

  'Fables Ancient and Modern' (1700) preface

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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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• 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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• The people have a right supreme
  To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
  All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,
  Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.
  Successionm for the general good design'd,
  In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.

  John Dryden

  Kings, People, Design

  John Dryden (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best.

  John Dryden

  Faithful, Succeed, Lord

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.13

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• Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Men, May

  John Dryden, George Gilfillan (1857). “Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.139

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• When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.

  John Dryden

  Autumn, Joy, Pears

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• [T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

  John Dryden

  Play, Unity, Three

  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668)

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• Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

  John Dryden

  Waiting, Fortune, Cheerfulness

  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.249

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• It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

  John Dryden

  Men, World, Neighbor

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