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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

John Dryden

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN

Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
They live too long who happiness outlive.
JOHN DRYDEN

Happiness Live
Love is love’s reward.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love One Liner Reward
Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDEN

One Liner Silence
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beware Man Patience
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDEN

Blind Willing Zeal
God never made his work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN

God Man Mend Work
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheap Death Fame
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fear Learning Lesson
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Lying Silence
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
JOHN DRYDEN

Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN

Criticism Revenge Writing
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDEN

Performance Quick Slow

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