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• And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Britannia Rediviva, Line 208...
• The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath.
  It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes....
• Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Virgil, Aeneid, Line 1...
• T is not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes with something still that 's new.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Aurengzebe, Act iv, Sc. 1...
• And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 197...
• Since heaven's eternal year is thine. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Elegy on Mrs.
  Killegrew, Line 15...
• The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 238...
• A]s for the rest of the distance around the inhabited earth which has not been visited by us up to the present time (because of the fact that the navigators who sailed in opposite directions never met)
  it is not of very great extent, if we reckon from the parallel distances that have been traversed by us....
• O Lord, grant that we may always be right, for Thou knowest we will never change our minds.
  -- Old Scottish Praye...