Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDENKings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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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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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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