John Dryden Quotes

• 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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• The Jews, a headstrong, moody, murmuring race.

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• His motions all accompanied with grace; And paradise was opened in his face.

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• Whate’er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone, ’twas natural to please.

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• Then Israel’s monarch, after Heaven’s own heart, His vigorous warmth did, variously, impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scattered his Maker’s image through the land.

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• In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin.

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• All the learn’d are cowards by profession.

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• My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.

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• Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

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• Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit; But Fortune, that has made a mistress of me, Has thrust me out to the wide world, unfurnish’d Of falsehood to be happy.

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• Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

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• The worst your malice can, Is but to say the greatest of mankind Has been my slave. The next, but far above him In my esteem, is he whom law calls yours, But whom his love made mine.

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• What I have left is from my native spring; I’ve still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

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• We were so clos’d within each other’s breasts The rivets were not found that join’d us first. That does not reach us yet: we were so mix’d, As meeting streams, both to ourselves were lost; We were one mass; we could not give or take, But from the same; for he was I, I he!

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• My heart’s so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

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• O that faint word, respect! how I disdain it!

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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.

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• Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off: I’ll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra.

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• My love’s a noble madness.

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• Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.

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John Dryden (201)

Birth:	9th August, 1631
Death:	1st May, 1700
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Playwright, Poet

About

John Dryden was born in Aldwincle, Thrapston, Northamptonshire, England. He was an English poet, literary critic and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He earned a BA degree from Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1654. He wrote several poems include: Annus Mirabilis, Absalom and Achitophel, The Medall, MacFlecknoe, The Hind and the Panther, Eleonora, and Fables Ancient and Modern. He wrote several plays include: The Wild Gallant, The Indian Emperour, Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, Tyrannick Love, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, Marriage A-la-Mode, Aureng-Zebe, All for Love, Oedipus, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon, and Love Triumphant.

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