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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN

Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Block Government Time
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
JOHN DRYDEN

Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN

Distance Flesh Goodness Present
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lying Myself Wife
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

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