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Dichter, Literaturkritiker, Dramatiker, Vertreter des englischen Klassizismus, "Absalom and Achitophel", "Marriage à la mode", "The Hind and the Panther" (England, 1631 - 1700).

John Dryden · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

John Dryden wäre heute 393 Jahre, 7 Monate, 25 Tage oder 143.778 Tage alt.

Geboren am 09.08.1631 in Aldwincle
Gestorben am 01.05.1700 in London
Sternzeichen: ♌ Löwe

• Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

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• Enjoy the present smiling hour. And put it out of Fortune's power.

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• Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Even victors are by victories undone.

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• Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

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• Fairest Isle, all isles excelling, Seat of pleasures, and of loves; Venus here will choose her dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian groves.

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• Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood: Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.

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• Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

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• For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

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• For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

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• For he was great, ere fortune made him so.

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• For heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, / When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

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

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• For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

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• For those whom God to ruin has designed, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

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

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• For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgement always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.

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• Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon, who have done the wrong.

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• Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

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• From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

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