English - Poet | August 19, 1631 - May 12, 1700
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
John Dryden
LoveWaterYouSightSeeThrough
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
GreatMadnessDivideSureWitsThin
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.
TodayAloneManHappyTomorrowSay
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
WordsYouBurnMoreBriefDeeper
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
BodyDownSpiritShameBreaking
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
NatureLawEldestSelf-Defence
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
PoetryDancingFoot
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
HappinessManThoughtsCareMayHis
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
MusicCannotPassionsRaiseQuell
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
ArgumentWordBlowTis
Honor is but an empty bubble.
HonorBubbleEmpty
And plenty makes us poor.
MoneyPoorUsMakesPlenty
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