John Dryden

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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

But love's a malady without a cure.

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.

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!

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

Love is love's reward.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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

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 this deceit.

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