Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDENShakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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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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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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