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John Dryden

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You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.


— John Dryden


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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.


— John Dryden


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


— John Dryden


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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.


— John Dryden


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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.


— John Dryden


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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.


— John Dryden


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But love's a malady without a cure.


— 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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.


— John Dryden


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Love is love's reward.


— John Dryden


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Whatever Dryden’s response to this was he clearly respected the Headmaster and would later send two of his own sons to school at Westminster. It was a modern epic in pentameter quatrains that establiJohn Drydend him as the preeminent poet of his generation and was crucial in his attaining the posts of Poet Laureate (1668) and historiographer royal (1670). In 1667 around the same time his dramatic career began he publiJohn Drydend Annus Mirabilis a lengthy historical poem which described the events of 1666; the English defeat of the Dutch naval fleet and the Great Fire of London.

" He was made Poet Laureate in 1668. John Dryden (9 August 1631 – 1 May 1700) was an influential English poet literary critic translator and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.

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