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

John Dryden

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
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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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
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
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
JOHN DRYDEN

Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time

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