Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDEN
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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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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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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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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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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