"The thought of being nothing after death is……" — John Dryden
"The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man."
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John Dryden
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335 Quotes by John Dryden
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War is the trade of kings.
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
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Not to ask is not be denied.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure,…
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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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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All heiresses are beautiful.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
— George Carlin
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
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I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
— Jarvis Cocker
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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that…
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The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.
— Woody Allen
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I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
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