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 DRYDENThose who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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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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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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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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