Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
JOHN DRYDENDeath ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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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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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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