Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDENNothing to build, and all things to destroy.
More John Dryden Quotes
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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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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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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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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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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