Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDENIf 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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