Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDENLove is not in our choice but in our fate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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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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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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