Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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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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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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