John Dryden
Quotations
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“For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.” -John Dryden
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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.” -John Dryden
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“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.” -John Dryden
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“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.” -John Dryden
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“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.” -John Dryden
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“Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!” -John Dryden
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“Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.” -John Dryden
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“Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.” -John Dryden
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“By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.” -John Dryden
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“Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.” -John Dryden
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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.” -John Dryden
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“The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.” -John Dryden
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. – John Dryden
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. – John Dryden
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