John Dryden
John Dryden
John Drydenwas an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668...
alone careful coin determine people spend time time-and-time-management valuable
Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.
freedom democracies-have people
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
god king nor pampered people
God's pampered people whom, debauched with ease, / No king could govern, nor no God could please.
life cheating people
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
kings people drones
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
people action common
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.
thinking people matter
If 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.
kings people design
The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust, Which when resum'd, can be no longer just. Successionm for the general good design'd, In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.
stupid eye people
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
people conscience
The conscience of a people is their power.
chose discourse nearest rugged verse
And this unpolished rugged verse I chose / As fittest for discourse and nearest prose.
though warm
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm
poor ten thousand torture word
And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.
child thus
And thus the child imposes on the man.