Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Virtue is her own reward.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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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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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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