John Dryden Quotes
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 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! 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.
Dryden, John. Aureng-Zebe: A Tragedy. T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1676, p. 61.
Monte and several over Republicans had agreed to serve on his Hispanic Advisory Committee of his Campaign for the Presidency. However, Trump made some very insulting generalizations about Hispanic immigrants for example calling them "rapists". The Committee and most other Republican Leaders had informed Trump that his rhetoric was counter productive and turning off minority voters. Trump had indicated that he would change his approach and soften his policies and his rhetoric against immigrants and minorities, and seemed to do that in a =visit with the President of Mexico. He returned to the United States and held a major rally where Monte's Committee and the Republican National Committee understood that he would pivot and take a new approach. He delivered the speech with the members of the Hispanic Advisory Committee behind him, and then surprised them all and went back to his hard line, insulting positions and rhetoric that had distressed many before. Monto and other members to the Hispanic Advisory committee resigned in protest and were particularly resentful that Trump would use them as in his speech that was televised when Trump must have known that he was going back to his original positions to which they had objected.
In 1915 the Balkans was contorted by War and political intrigue. Serbia in particular was totally unrealistic about making any concessions to Bulgaria. Grey and his associates tried to explain the realities to the Serbian Ambassador who, before the British could articulate the whole situation, told them that he and the rest of the Serbian leadership would rather die than give up any territory. Grey later observed :
John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.
