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How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.

How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.

John Dryden
Life, Sweet, Pain
John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.372

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

John Dryden
Happiness, Pain, Gains
'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 4, sc. 1

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

John Dryden
Pain, Long, Use
John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.123

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

John Dryden
Sweet, Pain, Pleasure
'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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!

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

Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

John Dryden
Sweet, Pain, Drinking
'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.

John Dryden
Pain, Dying, Pleasure
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.465

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

John Dryden
Sweet, Pain, Treasure
'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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