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John Dryden
Age: 68 †
Born: 1631
Born: August 7
Died: 1700
Died: May 12
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Northamptonshire
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I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.
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Love either finds equality or makes it.
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Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.
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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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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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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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You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
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So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.
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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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Restless at home, and ever prone to range.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Even victors are by victories undone.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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My love's a noble madness.
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Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay To-morrow's falser than the former day Lies worse and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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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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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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