
John Dryden
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Playwright📖
17th-century English poet and playwright
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Born
August 9, 1631
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Died
May 1, 1700
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Birthplace
Aldwincle
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Nationality
Kingdom of England
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Spouse(s)
Elizabeth Howard
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Children
Sir Erasmus Henry Dryden, 5th Baronet, Charles Dryden, John Dryden
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playwrighttranslatorpoetliterary critichymnwriter
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"And plenty makes us poor."
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"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."
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"Beware the fury of a patient man."
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"But love's a malady without a cure."
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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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"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."
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"Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son."
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"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."
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"Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are."
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"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves."
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"War is the trade of Kings."
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"Words are but pictures of our thoughts."
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