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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
JOHN DRYDEN

Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Grace Strength
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Fear Known
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
JOHN DRYDEN

Live Past Remember Thankful
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Finding Love Time Way
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Fate Love

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

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