John Dryden, The Secular Masque (1700), line 82.
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Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
— John Dryden on Joy
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night." in the context of "John Dryden, The Secular Masque (1700), line 82." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Joy" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 409-10.)
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