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Quote by John Dryden
For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect

For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good. – John Dryden

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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. – John Dryden

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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. – John Dryden

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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son. – John Dryden

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying? – Tony Campolo

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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Philippians 4:4 – Bible

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We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness. – R. W. Dale

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. – Michel de Montaigne

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She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position. – George Bernard Shaw

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A father is a person whos around, participating in a childs life. Hes a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns. – Michael Nutter

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Anyone can support a team that is winning – it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage. – Bart Starr

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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. – Og Mandino

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