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“Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.”

John Dryden

The Character of Polybius (1692)

“For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.”

John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. III, lines 364–365.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Happy who in his verse can gently steer
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.”

John Dryden

The Art of Poetry, canto i, line 75.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“With ravished ears
The monarch hears;
Assumes the god,
Affects the nod,
And seems to shake the spheres.”

John Dryden

Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 37–41.

“The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.”

John Dryden

Aeneis, Book VI, lines 192–195.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

“Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped;
And they have kept it since by being dead.”

John Dryden The Conquest of Granada

Epilogue.
The Conquest of Granada (1669-1670)

“For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.”

John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, lines 33–34.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Genius must be born, and never can be taught.”

John Dryden

Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 60.

“The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.”

John Dryden

St. 4. <br class="br"> A Song for St. Cecilia&#x27;s Day http://www.englishverse.com/poems/a_song_for_st_cecilias_day_1687 (1687)

“Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure;
Rich the treasure;
Sweet the pleasure;
Sweet is pleasure after pain.”

John Dryden

Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 57–60.

“Auspicious Prince! at whose nativity
Some royal planet rul'd the southern sky;
Thy longing country's darling and desire;
Their cloudy pillar, and their guardian fire:
Their second Moses, whose extended wand
Divides the seas, and shows the promis'd land:
Whose dawning day, in very distant age,
Has exercis'd the sacred prophet's rage:
The people's pray'r, the glad diviner's theme,
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, lines 230–239.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Railing and praising were his usual themes;
And both, to show his judgment, in extremes;
So over violent, or over civil,
That every man with him was God or devil.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, lines 554–557.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“Than a successive title long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.”

John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther

Pt 1, line 301.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

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

John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 1–2.

“Here lies my wife:here let her lie!
Now she's at rest, and so am I.”

John Dryden

Epitaph, intended for his wife

“All have not the gift of martyrdom.”

John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. II, line 59.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight,
Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,
Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate
The mystic wonders of your silent state!”

John Dryden

Aeneis, Book VI, lines 374–377.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

“[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unités, or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.”

John Dryden

Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1668) Full text online http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet.html.

“Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.”

John Dryden

To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), line 70.