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John Dryden
Age: 68 †
Born: 1631
Born: August 7
Died: 1700
Died: May 12
Hymnwriter
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Northamptonshire
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.
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The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years and every little absence is an age.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave God cannot grant so much as they can crave.
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The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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War is a trade of kings.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
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For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be paid, And infinite with infinite be weighed.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong their judgment is a mere lottery.
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With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care.
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Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.
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