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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.

John Dryden

Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle
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
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Growth Myself Reputation Young
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Brown Easy Light Night
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Fear Known

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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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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