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• And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Hind and the Panther, Part i, Line 271...
• For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Hind and the Panther, Part iii, Line 2387...
• Not only hating David, but the king.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 512...
• Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be see
  Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace....
• 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...
• But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.
  -- John Trumbull (1750-1831) -- McFingal, Canto i, Line 67...