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Quotes by John Dryden

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The first is the law, the last prerogative.

~John Dryden

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There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

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To die is landing on some distant shore.

~John Dryden

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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

~John Dryden

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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

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Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

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All heiresses are beautiful.

~John Dryden

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Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: August 19th, 1631

Died: May 12th, 1700

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