All authors to their own defects are blind.
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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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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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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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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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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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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They think too little who talk too much.
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