Author: John Dryden

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

- John Dryden

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

- John Dryden

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.

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.

- John Dryden

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

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

- John Dryden

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

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

- John Dryden

But love's a malady without a cure.

But love's a malady without a cure.

- John Dryden

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

- John Dryden

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

- John Dryden

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

- John Dryden

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