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 DRYDENFor those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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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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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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