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 DRYDENWe can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
More John Dryden Quotes
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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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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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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