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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

John Dryden
Order, Grace, Peculiar
John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.132, Univ of California Press

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

John Dryden
Believe, Grace, Rewards

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

John Dryden
Grace, Affection, Goodness

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden
Love, Grace, Literature

To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.

John Dryden
Sex, Grace, Vain
Mr. Joseph Trapp, Mr. John Dryden, Edmund Smith, Mr. John Crown, Colley Cibber (1721). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. III.”, p.29

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

Order is the greatest grace.

John Dryden
Order, Grace
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.417

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