Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDENTruth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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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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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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