The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
JOHN DRYDENWhen I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
More John Dryden Quotes
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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