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 DRYDENI am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
More John Dryden Quotes
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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