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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

John Dryden

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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Best Silence Suffering Time
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity

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