+ Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. Author, September 27, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Complaint, Leisure, Suffering, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you. Author, August 27, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Ambition, Cost, Regret, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Either be wholly slaves or wholly free. Author, June 3, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Dichotomy, Freedom, Slavery, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Faith, Mind, Works, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ They first condemn that first advised the ill. Author, October 14, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Advice, Condemnation, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour. Author, July 1, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Inevitability, Power, Time, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Deception, Persuasion, Reasoning, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Reflection., Speed, Time, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, ‘is he well-born?’ Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
