Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDENNever was patriot yet, but was a fool.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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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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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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