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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

John Dryden
Fate, Past, Sorrow
John Dryden (1830). “Virgil: the Eclogues”, p.248

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

John Dryden
Women, Heart, Sorrow
John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.243

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

John Dryden
Fate, Joy, Sorrow

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