Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDENWe first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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War is the trade of kings.
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