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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

John Dryden

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheat Day False Fools Life
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDEN

Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDEN

Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Tears
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
JOHN DRYDEN

Fight Myself Rise Wound
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad

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