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John Dryden
Age: 68 †
Born: 1631
Born: August 7
Died: 1700
Died: May 12
Hymnwriter
Literary Critic
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Northamptonshire
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The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.
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Pleasure never comes sincere to man but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend God never made his work for man to mend.
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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.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.
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One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
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When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.
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Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means And providently pimps for ill desires.
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…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky
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The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust, Which when resum'd, can be no longer just. Successionm for the general good design'd, In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Home is the sacred refuge of our life.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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