Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDENMuch malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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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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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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