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

John Dryden

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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Ignorance Nature Reason Right World
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Language Oneself
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
JOHN DRYDEN

Thinking Unknown Whistle
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN

Love Pain Pleasure
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
JOHN DRYDEN

Freedom Subject Thrive
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Pain Pleasure Sweet
But love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cure Love
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey’d to see Another’s faults, and his deformity.
JOHN DRYDEN

Finding Himself Imperfection Mistake Secret
All authors to their own defects are blind.
JOHN DRYDEN

Author Blind Defect
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beginning Growth Small
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDEN

Glitter Gold
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
JOHN DRYDEN

King Mad Moments Nation
All empire is no more than power in trust.
JOHN DRYDEN

Empire Power Trust
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way

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