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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

John Dryden

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.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
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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Bound Habit Slave Vice

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

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