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What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

John Dryden
Spring, Heart, Fate
1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 3.

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

John Dryden
Heart, Numbers, Grows
John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.171

In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.

John Dryden
Heart, Men, Israel
John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

John Dryden
Women, Heart, Sorrow
John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.243

Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.

John Dryden
Heart, Tongue, Eternity
John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes”, p.437

The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

John Dryden
Heart, Mind, Desert
John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ...”, p.255

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

John Dryden
Heart, Hands, Guilt
John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.94

My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

John Dryden
Heart, Thinking, Mad
1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

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