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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Love is love’s reward.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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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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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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By education most have been misled.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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