Merit challenges envy.
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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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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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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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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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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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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