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• Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

  John Dryden

  Betrayal, Ice, Way

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• When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;
  Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;
  Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay.
  Tomorrow's falser than the former day.

  John Dryden

  Life, Men, Thinking

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2746, Delphi Classics

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• Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.

  John Dryden

  Sex, Lying, Wife

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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• Love either finds equality or makes it.

  John Dryden

  Love, Marriage, Best Love

  John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.490

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• By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

  John Dryden

  Children, Lying, Believe

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 389

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• The conscience of a people is their power.

  John Dryden

  People, Conscience

  John Dryden (1993). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV: Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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• Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.

  John Dryden

  Moving, Sea, Wings

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1561, Delphi Classics

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• No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

  John Dryden

  Death, Kings, Moments

  John Dryden, “Palamon And Arcite; Or The Knight's Tale. From Chaucer. In Three Books. Book Ii.”

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• Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

  John Dryden

  Weed, Men, Fire

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.305-9.

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• Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

  John Dryden

  Rain, Fate, Past

  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.349

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• Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Journey

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 883

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• The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

  John Dryden

  Heaven, Liberty, Life Is

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

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• He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

  John Dryden

  Curiosity, Behind The Scenes, Counterfeit

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• Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Soul, Shields

  John Dryden (1717). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant”, p.37

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• Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

  John Dryden

  Age

  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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• Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

  John Dryden

  Tears, Contagion

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 1.

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• And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
  With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

  John Dryden

  Time, Writing, Brass

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.77

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• While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

  John Dryden

  Lying, Grief, Eye

  John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.86

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• Possess your soul with patience.

  John Dryden

  Patience, Soul, Your Soul

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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• Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

  John Dryden

  Stupid, Tired, Eagles

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.344

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• There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

  John Dryden

  Depression, Mad, Insanity

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• Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

  John Dryden

  Kings, Fighting, Empires

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• Few know the use of life before 'tis past.

  John Dryden

  Past, Use, Knows

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden,: The life of John Dryden”, p.228

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• Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

  John Dryden

  Love, Power, Grows

  'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

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• Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

  John Dryden

  Book, Inward, Found

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

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