Quote by John Dryden
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or k

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. – John Dryden

Other quotes by John Dryden

Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. – John Dryden

Category:
Endurance
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We lovd, and we lovd as long as we could
Til our love was lovd out in us both;
But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure has fled:
Twas pleasure that made it an oath. – John Dryden

Category:
Divorce
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Dont worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you. – Source Unknown

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Baldwin

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde

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Im not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. – Carol Leifer

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Exercise

I am not afraid of death, I just dont want to be there when it happens. – Woody Allen

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Death

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldnt finance it only through theatrical release, we couldnt get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, lets do it both ways. So we did it in four parts. – Bille August

Category:
finance

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. – Andrew Jackson

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Government