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Thinking Quotes by John Dryden
- 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…
- When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow…
- Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never…
- Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys...
- When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,…
- Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.
- Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some…
- If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good…
- My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness,…
- Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface…
- Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the…
- 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…
- Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.
- The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood,…
- But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
- I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander…
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