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

Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.


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Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
         



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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

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Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.



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