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 DRYDENBut far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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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.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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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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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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