Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Quote by John Dryden

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He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved...

He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved...

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the...

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the...

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

War is the trade of Kings.

War is the trade of Kings.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor...

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor...

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who...

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who...

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we...

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we...

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath...

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath...

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...