Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDENThey think too little who talk too much.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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