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John Dryden (August 9, 1631 May 12, 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, and playwright. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your comments or consult wikipedia
"Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance."
Dryden, John on Decisions
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"Self-defense is Nature's eldest law."
Dryden, John on Defense
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"Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few."
Dryden, John on Democracy
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"So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil."
Dryden, John on Extremes and Extremists
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"All objects lose by too familiar a view."
Dryden, John on Familiarity
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"All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."
Dryden, John on Fate
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"He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."
Dryden, John on Fear
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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
Dryden, John on Genius
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."
Dryden, John on Genius
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"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
Dryden, John on Habit
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"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
Dryden, John on Habit
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"Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil."
Dryden, John on Honor
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"All heiresses are beautiful."
Dryden, John on Inheritance
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"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."
Dryden, John on Jealousy
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"For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good."
Dryden, John on Joy
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"Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause."
Dryden, John on Kings
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"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit."
Dryden, John on Life and Living
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"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be."
Dryden, John on Anxiety
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"Drinking is the soldier's pleasure."
Dryden, John on Army and Navy
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"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds."
Dryden, John on Love
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"Love is not in our choice but in our fate."
Dryden, John on Love
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"Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!"
Dryden, John on Opportunity
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"Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are."
Dryden, John on Pain
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"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."
Dryden, John on Parents and Parenting
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"Beware the fury of a patient man."
Dryden, John on Patience
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"Never was patriot yet, but was a fool."
Dryden, John on Patriotism
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"He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him."
Dryden, John on Plagiarism
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"Resolved to ruin or to rule the state."
Dryden, John on Politicians and Politics
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"Mighty things from small beginnings grow."
Dryden, John on Power
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"He who would search for pearls must dive below."
Dryden, John on Price
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"Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone."
Dryden, John on Reason
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