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 DRYDENThus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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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.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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