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Quote by John Dryden
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with th

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. – John Dryden

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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. – John Dryden

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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. – François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

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When he is in the room with other persons, speech stops, as if there were a corpse in the apartment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very

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I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. – Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854 #infj

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