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  • If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

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    John Dryden (1822). “Fables, from Boccaccio and Chaucer”, p.259

  • Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

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    John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.189

  • Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.

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    John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

  • And plenty makes us poor.

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    John Dryden (1972). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684”, p.47, Univ of California Press
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John Dryden

  • Born: August 9, 1631
  • Died: May 12, 1700
  • Occupation: Poet
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