The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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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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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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