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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

John Dryden
Happiness, Pain, Gains
'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 4, sc. 1

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

John Dryden
Happiness, Men, Anxious Thoughts

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

John Dryden
Happiness, Determination, Blood
'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 364

They live too long who happiness outlive.

John Dryden
Happiness, Long
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

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

John Dryden
Happiness, Men, Today
Imitation of Horace bk. 3, ode 29, l. 65 (1685)

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