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An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.
- John Dryden
Collection: Jewels
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How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!
- John Dryden
Collection: Running
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Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.
- John Dryden
Collection: Reason
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
- John Dryden
Collection: Kitchen
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I learn to pity woes so like my own.
- John Dryden
Collection: Woe
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The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.
- John Dryden
Collection: Atheism
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Possess your soul with patience.
- John Dryden
Collection: Patience
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Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!
- John Dryden
Collection: Tyrants
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To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.
- John Dryden
Collection: Sex
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As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.
- John Dryden
Collection: Long
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But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.
- John Dryden
Collection: Pain
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That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.
- John Dryden
Collection: Brave
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
- John Dryden
Collection: Drinking
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He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.
- John Dryden
Collection: Firsts
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Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.
- John Dryden
Collection: Reason
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.
- John Dryden
Collection: Judging
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Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
- John Dryden
Collection: Fate
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I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
- John Dryden
Collection: Soul
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The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
- John Dryden
Collection: Dream
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Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.
- John Dryden
Collection: Passion
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Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
- John Dryden
Collection: Ambition
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He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.
- John Dryden
Collection: Horse
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By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
- John Dryden
Collection: Art
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With how much ease believe we what we wish!
- John Dryden
Collection: Believe
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My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.
- John Dryden
Collection: Dream
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Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
- John Dryden
Collection: Shining
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Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
- John Dryden
Collection: Long
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A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.
- John Dryden
Collection: Poetry
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He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
- John Dryden
Collection: Men
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Learn to write well, or not to write at all.
- John Dryden
Collection: Writing
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Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
- John Dryden
Collection: Soul
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For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
- John Dryden
Collection: Conformity
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Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.
- John Dryden
Collection: Grace And Mercy
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Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
- John Dryden
Collection: Nice
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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
- John Dryden
Collection: Society
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For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.
- John Dryden
Collection: Men
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Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.
- John Dryden
Collection: Faith
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All habits gather by unseen degrees.
- John Dryden
Collection: Unseen
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Home is the sacred refuge of our life.
- John Dryden
Collection: Home
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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.
- John Dryden
Collection: Jealousy
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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.
- John Dryden
Collection: Sex
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But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.
- John Dryden
Collection: Talent

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