If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
JOHN DRYDENConfidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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