Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Quote by John Dryden
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Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
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John Dryden Quotes
- Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
- 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.
- They think to little who talk to much.
- But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much.
- How can finite grasp infinity
- You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
- The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.
- Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
- Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
- The conscience of a people is their power.
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