Author: John Dryden

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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!

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!

- 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

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

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

- John Dryden

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

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

- John Dryden

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.

- John Dryden

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.

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.

- John Dryden

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

- John Dryden

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