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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.
John Dryden
Man
Today
Tomorrow
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden
Life
Fear
Day
First
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden
Pearls
Honor is but an empty bubble.
John Dryden
Honor
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
John Dryden
Words
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
John Dryden
Brooks
Habits
Rivers
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden
Events
Fortune
Madness
Nothing
Prudence
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden
Soul
Jealousy
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.
John Dryden
Love
Virtue
End
Goodness
Grace
Will
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
John Dryden
Laws
Love is love's reward.
John Dryden
Love
Reward
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
John Dryden
Son
Man
Will
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
Love
Fool
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
John Dryden
Fool
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
Happiness
Thoughts
Care
Man
May