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 DRYDENBeware of the fury of the patient man.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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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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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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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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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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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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