When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDENIf 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.
More John Dryden Quotes
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
JOHN DRYDEN