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John Dryden

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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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Aldwincle
Northamptonshire
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Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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My right eye itches, some good luck is near.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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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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I am devilishly afraid, that's certain but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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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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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
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Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
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Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
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You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
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He was exhaled his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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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.
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Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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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.
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Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.
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