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Virtue is her own reward.

John Dryden

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue

Virtue is her own reward.

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