John Dryden Quotes About Happiness

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  • Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

    'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 364
  • For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

    'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 4, sc. 1
  • They live too long who happiness outlive.

    John Dryden, John Loftis, Vinton A. Dearing (1967). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume IX: Plays: The Indian Emperour, Secret Love, Sir Martin Mar-all”, p.84, Univ of California Press
  • Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

    Men  
  • Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

    Men  
    Imitation of Horace bk. 3, ode 29, l. 65 (1685)
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