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• Love is love's reward.

  John Dryden

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

  John Dryden (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.88

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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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• I am as free as nature first made man,
  Ere the base laws of servitude began,
  When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Men, Law

  The Conquest of Granada pt. 1, act 1, sc. 1 (1670)

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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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• Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

  John Dryden

  Riches, Slave, Claims

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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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• The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

  John Dryden

  Scum, Nations

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• Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

  John Dryden

  Running, Rivers, Sea

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.44

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• Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

  John Dryden

  Sight, Decay, Woe

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1745, Delphi Classics

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• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

  John Dryden

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Fool

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 968

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• Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

  John Dryden

  Life, Kindness, Keys

  'All for Love' (1678) act 5, sc. 1 (of Love)

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• Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

  John Dryden

  Noble, Fidelity

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes”, p.437

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• Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

  John Dryden

  Believe, Grace, Rewards

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• Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

  John Dryden

  Love, Power, Remember

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.132

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• How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.

  John Dryden

  Life, Country, Peace

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.312, Delphi Classics

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• How happy the lover,
  How easy his chain,
  How pleasing his pain,
  How sweet to discover
  He sighs not in vain.

  John Dryden

  Life, Sweet, Pain

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.372

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• Presence of mind and courage in distress,
  Are more than arrives to procure success?

  John Dryden

  Military, Presence Of Mind, Mind

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• Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

  John Dryden

  Joy, Watches, Youth

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “Dramatic works”, p.228

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• The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

  John Dryden

  Nature, Eye, Science

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (1995). “The Poems of John Dryden: 1693-1696”, p.302, Pearson Education

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• An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Past, Sorrow

  John Dryden (1830). “Virgil: the Eclogues”, p.248

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• Beware the fury of a patient man.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Christian, Wise

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 1005

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• Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

  John Dryden

  Father, Writing, Patterns

  1668 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.

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• They say everything in the world is good for something.

  John Dryden

  World

  Mr. John Dryden, Mr. Nathaniel Lee (1720). “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. III.”, p.54

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• Love and Time with reverence use,
  Treat them like a parting friend:
  Nor the golden gifts refuse
  Which in youth sincere they send:
  For each year their price is more,
  And they less simple than before.

  John Dryden

  Time, Simple, Years

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2065, Delphi Classics

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• Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

  John Dryden

  Birthday, Strong, Age

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