Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDENMerit challenges envy.
More John Dryden Quotes
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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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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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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