“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.”
Beauty
“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.”
MoneyAll Quotes by John Dryden
“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
Happiness“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.”
Education“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
Hope“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”
Poetry“Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”
Death“But love's a malady without a cure.”
Love“Successful crimes alone are justified.”
Alone“The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.”
Anger“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.”
Anger“Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.”
Forgiveness“Love is love's reward.”
Love“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.”
Alone“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
Fear“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
Patience“For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.”
Truth“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
Jealousy“War is the trade of Kings.”
War“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!”
Future“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”
Love