John Dryden

“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”

“God never made His work for man to mend.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Love is love's reward.”

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

“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”

“But love's a malady without a cure.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”

“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”