What did John Dryden mean by: If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last. - John Dryden Poet · England Copy
+ The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Dryden, Generosity, Mind, Secret, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ Lucky men are favorites of Heaven. Feraz Zeid, June 13, 2023December 12, 2023, John Dryden, Heaven, Lucky, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ Love is not in our choice but in our fate. Feraz Zeid, August 25, 2023December 24, 2023, John Dryden, Choices, Fate, Love, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ The World to Bacon does not only owe it’s present knowledge, but its future too. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Dryden, Atheism, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ None but the brave deserve the fair. Feraz Zeid, August 23, 2023December 24, 2023, John Dryden, Brave, Fairs, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ All the learn’d are cowards by profession. Feraz Zeid, August 13, 2023December 12, 2023, John Dryden, Coward, Profession, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Dryden, Fate, Past, Sorrow, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ None are so busy as the fool and the knave. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, John Dryden, Busy, Fool, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10% - Masaaki Hatsumi Martial artist · Japan
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. Explain - Max Beerbohm Satirist and caricaturist · England
Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future. - Mehmet Murat Ildan Playwright and novelist · Turkey
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. - Jean Froissart Historian · Belgium
