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  • Politicians neither love nor hate.

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    1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.223.

  • Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

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    'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 4, sc. 1

  • Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

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    John Dryden (1998). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim”, p.104, Univ of California Press

  • But love's a malady without a cure.

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    'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 2, l. 110

  • Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

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    John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.132

  • Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

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    John Dryden (1784). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.233

  • Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

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    John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.145

  • Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!

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    John Dryden (1808). “Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love”, p.393

  • Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

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    John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.138

  • Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

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    'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

  • Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

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  • When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

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    John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.432

  • But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

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    John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.53

  • Love either finds equality or makes it.

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    John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.490

  • My love's a noble madness.

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    'All for Love' (1678) act 2, sc. 1

  • Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

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    John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.413, Delphi Classics

  • Love is love's reward.

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    John Dryden (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.88

  • When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

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    John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.407

  • Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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John Dryden

  • Born: August 9, 1631
  • Died: May 12, 1700
  • Occupation: Poet
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