3 December 2020 John Dryden 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.
3 December 2020 John Dryden 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.
3 December 2020 John Dryden Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
3 December 2020 John Dryden Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
3 December 2020 John Dryden 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.
3 December 2020 John Dryden He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
3 December 2020 John Dryden For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
3 December 2020 John Dryden 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.
3 December 2020 John Dryden The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
3 December 2020 John Dryden When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
3 December 2020 John Dryden 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.
3 December 2020 John Dryden Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
3 December 2020 John Dryden 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!
