Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
JOHN DRYDENThe thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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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.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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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.
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