The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
JOHN DRYDENParting is worse than death; it is death of love!
More John Dryden Quotes
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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