More from 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.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
John DrydenJohn Dryden Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
John DrydenJohn Dryden For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
John DrydenJohn Dryden All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
John DrydenJohn Dryden All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Sweet is pleasure after pain.
John DrydenJohn Dryden 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.
John DrydenJohn Dryden He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
John DrydenJohn Dryden None but the brave deserve the fair.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
John DrydenJohn Dryden
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