The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
JOHN DRYDENIf passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
More John Dryden Quotes
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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