Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDENThe sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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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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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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