If by the people you ...

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.
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.
 John Dryden

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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Fortune befriends the bold.
 John Dryden
A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
 John Dryden
Men are but children of a larger growth.
 John Dryden
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
 John Dryden
Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
 John Dryden