"To die is landing on some distant shore." — John Dryden
"To die is landing on some distant shore."
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John Dryden
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335 Quotes by John Dryden
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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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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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