Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Quote by John Dryden

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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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...

War is the trade of kings.

War is the trade of kings.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered...

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered...

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from...

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from...

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he...

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he...

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...

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount...

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount...

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...

To die is landing on some distant shore.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

God never made his work for man to mend.

God never made his work for man to mend.

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is...

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is...

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...

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.