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About John Dryden

John Dryden was a 17th-century English poet and playwright. John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Peace — The pursuit of harmony, reconciliation, and inner calm
  • War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war

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“I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again”
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“But far more numerous was the herd of such,Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
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“For you may palm upon us new for old:All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.”
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“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”
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“If others in the same Glass better see 'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me: For my Salvation must its Doom receive Not from what others, but what I believe.”
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“Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd,Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind”
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