What did John Dryden mean by: Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. John Dryden Poet · England Copy
+ A happy genius is the gift of nature. Author, October 19, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Happiness, Nature, Talent, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ But ’tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Reformation, Talent, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Assurance, Knowledge, Perception, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ The greater part performed achieves the less. Author, September 7, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Efficiency, Productivity, Success, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Fallibility, Majority, Truth., 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ To die is landing on some distant shore. Author, June 29, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Death, Rebirth, Transition, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Existentialism, Mortality, Virtue, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think? Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Apathy, Hedonism, Power, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
