Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Hushed as midnight silence.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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