Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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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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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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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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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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