Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
JOHN DRYDEN
JOHN DRYDEN
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
John DrydenJohn Dryden By education most have been misled.
John DrydenJohn Dryden 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 DrydenJohn Dryden Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
John DrydenJohn Dryden Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
John DrydenJohn Dryden And plenty makes us poor.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
John DrydenJohn Dryden For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
John DrydenJohn Dryden All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
John DrydenJohn Dryden All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Sweet is pleasure after pain.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
John DrydenJohn Dryden He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
John DrydenJohn Dryden None but the brave deserve the fair.
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