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John Dryden Quotes about Love

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Love either finds equality or makes it.

Love either finds equality or makes it.

Love, Marriage, Best Love

John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.490

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Love, Wise, Mind

John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.145

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Love, Fate, Choices

John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.413, Delphi Classics

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Love, Life, Breakup

'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 4, sc. 1

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

Love, Flying, Dying

John Dryden (1998). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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

Love, Power, Remember

John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.132

Love is love's reward.

Love, Philosophy, Educational

John Dryden (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.88

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.

Love, Grace, Literature

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

Love, Power, Grows

'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

But love's a malady without a cure.

Love, Literature, Cures

'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 2, l. 110

Politicians neither love nor hate.

Love, Hate, Love Hate

1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.223.

Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

Love, Life, Passion

Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!

Love, Sweet, Pain

John Dryden (1808). “Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love”, p.393

Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

Love, Past, Storm

John Dryden (1784). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.233

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

Love, Fire, Blood

John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.432

My love's a noble madness.

Love, Noble, Madness

'All for Love' (1678) act 2, sc. 1

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

Love, Ambition, Ice

John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.53

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

Love, Men, Heaven

John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.138

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Love, Snow, Used

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.407

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