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• Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.113

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• A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

  John Dryden

  Passion, Men, Cheated

  John Dryden (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin”, p.139

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• Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Land, Sole

  'Threnodia Augustalis' (1685) st. 10

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• Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
  Made still a blundering kind of melody;
  Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
  Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
  Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
  And in one word, heroically mad.

  John Dryden

  Knowing, Mad, Poetry

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.69

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• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

  John Dryden

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.196

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• None but the brave deserve the fair.

  John Dryden

  Brave, Bravery, Fairs

  Alexander's Feast l. 7 (1697)

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• They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

  John Dryden

  Men, Understanding, Firsts

  1677 'The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic Licence', an essay prefacing State of Innocence, a libretto based on Paradise Lost.

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• Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

  John Dryden

  Death, Fear, Knows

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

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• Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

  John Dryden

  Beautiful, Language, Sometimes

  John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.163, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

  John Dryden

  Spring, Heart, Fate

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 3.

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• Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

  John Dryden

  Blind, Zeal, Conductor

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.479, Pearson Education

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• Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

  John Dryden

  Gratitude, Grateful, Errors

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• And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

  John Dryden

  Mind, And Love, Frailty

  'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 2, sc. 2.

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• He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.

  John Dryden

  Years, Looks, Vigor

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.850, Delphi Classics

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• Time and death shall depart and say in flying
  Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

  John Dryden

  Love, Flying, Dying

  John Dryden (1998). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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• Politicians neither love nor hate.

  John Dryden

  Love, Hate, Love Hate

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.223.

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• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

  John Dryden

  Grace, Affection, Goodness

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• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

  John Dryden

  Life, Cheating, People

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• Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

  John Dryden

  Art, Giving, Painting

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1836). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.332

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• Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

  John Dryden

  Revenge, Cry, Arise

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.595, Pearson Education

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• Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

  John Dryden

  Pain, Long, Use

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.123

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• Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

  John Dryden

  Eye, Soul, Spiders

  John Dryden (2014). “Marriage A-La-Mode”, p.47, A&C Black

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• For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Needs, Literature

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 1, l. 33

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• 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

  Running, Past, Thinking

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

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• For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Design, Mind

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.108

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