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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
John Dryden
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John Dryden
Age: 68 †
Born: 1631
Born: August 7
Died: 1700
Died: May 12
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A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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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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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.
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Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
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He was exhaled his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Even victors are by victories undone.
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Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in Free from all meaning whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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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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Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.
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Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
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He invades authors like a monarch and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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