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Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

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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Northamptonshire
Sacred
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Life
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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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Time glides with undiscover'd haste The future but a length behind the past.
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He was exhaled his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.
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He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
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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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For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.
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With how much ease believe we what we wish!
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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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Learn to write well, or not to write at all.
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Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.
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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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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.
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Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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