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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

John Dryden
Light, Giving, Suffering
John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.124

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

John Dryden
Life, Giving, Equal
John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.227

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

John Dryden
Art, Giving, Painting
John Dryden, John Mitford (1836). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.332

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

John Dryden
Thinking, Giving, Ease
John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.133

Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.

John Dryden
Taken, Giving, Perfection
John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best understands their force. This diction of his, I must once again say, is never to be copied; and since it cannot, he will appear but lame in the best translation.

John Dryden
Giving, Grace, Diction
John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.129

Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

John Dryden
Giving, Enemy, Opinion
John Dryden (1808). “Prose works”, p.474

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

John Dryden
Giving, Want, Poverty
John Dryden (1822). “Fables, from Boccaccio and Chaucer”, p.259

What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

John Dryden
Running, Giving, Judgment
'Fables Ancient and Modern' (1700) preface

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