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• Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

  John Dryden

  Good Life, Mean, Use

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.185

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• They think too little who talk too much.

  John Dryden

  Thinking, Littles, Too Much

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• Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

  John Dryden

  Past, Haste, Length

  John Dryden (2002). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume VII: Poems, 1697-1700”, p.258, Univ of California Press

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• Merit challenges envy.

  John Dryden

  Envy, Challenges, Merit

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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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• 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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• Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Understanding, Enthusiasm

  John Dryden, Edmond Malone (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...”, p.349

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Politicians neither love nor hate.

  John Dryden

  Love, Hate, Love Hate

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

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

  John Dryden

  Grace, Affection, Goodness

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• Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

  John Dryden

  Life, Night, Joy

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.146

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!

  John Dryden

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  John Dryden (1808). “Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love”, p.393

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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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