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• So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 557...
• And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 197...
• Beware the fury of a patient man.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 1005...
• His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 645...
• Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 174...
• Not only hating David, but the king.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 512...
• Made still a blund'ring kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part ii, Line 413...
• Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 268...
• But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 198...