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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

  John Dryden

  Men, Good Man, Want

  'Constantine the Great' (1684) epilogue

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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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• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

  John Dryden

  Love, Grace, Literature

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

  John Dryden

  Riches, Slave, Claims

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

  John Dryden

  Scum, Nations

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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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• 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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• The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.

  John Dryden

  Dine

  "Amphitryon". Play by John Dryden, 1690.

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• What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?

  John Dryden

  Track, Tears, Dew

  John Dryden (1904*). “John Dryden”

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• From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead!' Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

  John Dryden

  Men, Order, Voice

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day' (1687) st. 1

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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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• 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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• Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

  John Dryden

  Running, Time, Race

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.837.

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• Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

  John Dryden

  Tyrants, Mind

  'Love Triumphant' (1694) act 3, sc. 1 'Song of Jealousy'

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• All empire is no more than power in trust.

  John Dryden

  Power, Empires

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 411

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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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