Daniel Taylor

“When I consider life, 't is all a cheat.
Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit;
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay.
To-morrow 's falser than the former day;
Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest
With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Strange cozenage! none would live past years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;
And from the dregs of life think to receive
What the first sprightly running could not give.”
― John Dryden

“Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.

(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)”
― Horace, Arte poética

“Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.

(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.”
― John Dryden, The critical and miscellaneous prose works of John Dryden, now first collected