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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
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
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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.
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Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
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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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN

Criticism Revenge Writing
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise

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