The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDENAll objects lose by too familiar a view.
More John Dryden Quotes
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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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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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