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


John Dryden

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide
JOHN DRYDEN Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES What thin partitions sense from thought divide.
ALEXANDER POPE Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
ALEXANDER POPE I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ...
RAY BRADBURY All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms chang...
MARK TWAIN To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S...
MATTHEW PRIOR To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit To publish it to all the na...
ALEXANDER POPE Good deeds allied to the pleasure of God are sure to cultivate kindness and wisdom.
MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH JAVED Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their pri...
JEFF GREENFIELD Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
DENIS DIDEROT In regular cells, like in bone and blood, the cells divide. But brain cells do not normally divide. ...
DANILO TAGLE Wow, I sure do miss John — hey, groupies!
JOHN ENTWISTLE John Kennedy said, 'We are a great and powerful people' and we've been doing great and wonderful thi...
BEN BOVA When the thin line between love and hatred faded away completely, madness sprang back to life inside...
AKSHAY VASU If everyone knows their roles in the organisation, do their best in their role, then success is defi...
ZENG HAN JUN How safe is your family? If people are aware of potential predators living near them, they'll take s...
MARK OLSEN As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the g...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not con...
WILLIAM PENN I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnes...
H.P. LOVECRAFT After the near-total destruction of Dresden in the Allied fire-bombing of February 1945, few people ...
GUNTER BLOBEL The Sahara is Africa's great divide.
RICHARD ENGEL Many live by their wits but few by their wit
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER We can go mad whenever we like. We can leave our minds behind and play in the garden at night. The g...
J.J. VLADIMIR Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire gr...
ELIZABETH MONTAGU Why do bad bosses divide their people into 3 tiered teams, the good, bad and the charmly?
BRYAN INDIGO Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA The idea is to let the children fully experience their lives and sharpen their wits through walking ...
XU XIANGYANG I've got to learn to let people do their job. When I was on the defensive side of the ball, I may ha...
DUANE MCWHORTER Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in man...
SEAN MACBRIDE Sure there is, between Martin and John.
ALLISON JANNEY Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique ste...
GEORGE F. WILL I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
BEN E. KING Great relationships do not depend on who you find, they depend on who you are.
JEFFREY FRY We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can pro...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they ...
JOHN CHEEVER How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this pass...
KATHRYN HURN Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker
GRANT MORRISON Now these cities are getting into the game, because they want to bridge their digital divide.
BILL CALDER Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON As you see you can't change what has happen in past if I could I do my best to don't happen in other...
DEYTH BANGER There is only a thin line separating life from death & just a small mistake can take you to the othe...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in ...
BAYARD TAYLOR Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how...
DEYTH BANGER We're getting some very bad decisions and some very bad findings from the appeals board ... I think ...
GREGORY HARDCASTLE Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided st...
BEN CARSON Ben and John are such great scorers. And it's great for me because when I'm on the floor I could car...
GRANT BARRETT Toyota, Honda and BMW continue to do well at the retail level. GM and Ford need to stop their retail...
TOM LIBBY The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev...
ROBERT BURNS I had signed a letter of intent to go to a college near by home in Pittsburg, Kan., on a basketball ...
BILL RUSSELL Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add featur...
SUNDAR PICHAI Once again, the racists and anti-Semites are exploiting a tragedy of great proportion and one that b...
ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN There's great potential here. But it's going to take some time to see how it plays out. I'm only 38 ...
ALLISON ELSBY Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own...
WILKIE COLLINS When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
HERVEY ALLEN Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits
HARVEY ALLEN Maybe it has something to do with longing for ... a more articulate society than there is these days...
GINNY REDINGTON A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
TOM STOPPARD We need fewer buildings and fewer beds to make sure we don't spread the quality too thin.
ANDREW RUDNICK Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
VICTOR HUGO Puns are the droppings of soaring wits
VICTOR HUGO Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.
RICK RIORDAN What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To ...
ANTHONY RYAN Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
HOMER The near-term momentum is clearly favorable to the dollar. Two further rate hikes are a pretty sure ...
HANS GOETTI There are allied interests seeing the broader benefit of gaming.
BOB ELLISTON Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and ...
JOHN BYROM Bone and Skin, two millers thin, / Would starve us all, or near it; / But be it known to Skin and Bo...
JOHN BYROM His credentials and background fits what we are trying to do. He has taken the studies and broke the...
HANS PRELL Every year we are growing by leaps and bounds.
WILLIAM BLAKE He just wants people to know that if you're thinking going out of bounds, consider the conditions an...
BRENT CURTAIN I get so sad when I see people who are really thin or really overweight. You can tell their spirit i...
KATIE HOLMES He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbea...
ROBERT BURNS This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air...
DIANA GABALDON Their hearts were all cycling through the same madness - the discovery, the bliss, the loss, the des...
HANNAH TINTI If crude prices are near their trough, earnings should start to flatten out and move up.
ABBY COHEN If crude prices are near their trough, earnings should start to flatten out and move up.
ABBY JOSEPH COHEN The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen, I leave them to their daily "tea is ready," Smug coterie a...
LORD BYRON Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who stole your wits awayAnd where are they gone?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greate...
OSCAR WILDE The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of...
JOHN DRYDEN Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
JACQUES BARZUN Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and...
RUSSELL CROWE It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do bo...
JAMES BALDWIN They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
WILLIAM HAZLITT

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JOHN DRYDEN Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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JOHN DRYDEN Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDEN Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
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JOHN DRYDEN Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
JOHN DRYDEN Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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JOHN DRYDEN Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin
JOHN DRYDEN Fortune befriends the bold.
JOHN DRYDEN For they conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN Successful crimes alone are justified.
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JOHN DRYDEN We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDEN Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
JOHN DRYDEN He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN All human things are subject to decay,
And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey;
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JOHN DRYDEN Nor is the people's judgement always true;
The most may err as grossly as the few.
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JOHN DRYDEN Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
JOHN DRYDEN All objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDEN Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
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JOHN DRYDEN Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDEN Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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JOHN DRYDEN Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what...
JOHN DRYDEN All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDEN We lov'd, and we lov'd as long as we could
Til our love was lov'd out in us both;
But our marr...
JOHN DRYDEN It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled...
JOHN DRYDEN For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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JOHN DRYDEN So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
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All Empire i...
JOHN DRYDEN Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
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JOHN DRYDEN For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
JOHN DRYDEN Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.
JOHN DRYDEN Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
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JOHN DRYDEN She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
JOHN DRYDEN Not to ask is not be denied.
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JOHN DRYDEN A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
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JOHN DRYDEN There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
JOHN DRYDEN Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDEN Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.
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JOHN DRYDEN Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
JOHN DRYDEN By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDEN Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
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JOHN DRYDEN And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
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JOHN DRYDEN For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is th...
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JOHN DRYDEN Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
JOHN DRYDEN Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
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JOHN DRYDEN And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private ...
JOHN DRYDEN Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
JOHN DRYDEN Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
JOHN DRYDEN Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
JOHN DRYDEN Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
JOHN DRYDEN God never made His work for man to mend.
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JOHN DRYDEN Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
JOHN DRYDEN When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
JOHN DRYDEN The conscience of a people is their power.
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JOHN DRYDEN Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDEN He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
JOHN DRYDEN Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are ...
JOHN DRYDEN At every close she made, th' attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song: So jus...
JOHN DRYDEN The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
JOHN DRYDEN Whatever he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please.
JOHN DRYDEN Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the slidi...
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JOHN DRYDEN Whatever is, is in its causes just.
JOHN DRYDEN Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDEN The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. His preac...
JOHN DRYDEN The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound; It speaks ...
JOHN DRYDEN A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDEN When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la ...
JOHN DRYDEN Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; ...
JOHN DRYDEN A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
JOHN DRYDEN He made all countries where he came his own.
JOHN DRYDEN And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive ...
JOHN DRYDEN Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
JOHN DRYDEN The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees. Th...
JOHN DRYDEN Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And t...
JOHN DRYDEN Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
JOHN DRYDEN She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.
JOHN DRYDEN Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
JOHN DRYDEN And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.
JOHN DRYDEN Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands, And, with his compass, measures seas and lands...
JOHN DRYDEN Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring...
JOHN DRYDEN None are so busy as the fool and knave.
JOHN DRYDEN We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDEN They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will ...
JOHN DRYDEN Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, c...
JOHN DRYDEN But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little and who talk too much.
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JOHN DRYDEN Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
JOHN DRYDEN War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDEN Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN Love is love's reward.
JOHN DRYDEN Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
JOHN DRYDEN But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
JOHN DRYDEN Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
JOHN DRYDEN The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
JOHN DRYDEN Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
JOHN DRYDEN Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
JOHN DRYDEN The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
JOHN DRYDEN There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the un...
JOHN DRYDEN When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted...
JOHN DRYDEN Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpa...
JOHN DRYDEN The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of bre...
JOHN DRYDEN Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; a...
JOHN DRYDEN Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chi...
JOHN DRYDEN She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.
JOHN DRYDEN And all to leave, what with this toil he won, / To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased w...
JOHN DRYDEN And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN When rattling bones together fly, / From the four corners of the sky.
JOHN DRYDEN Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below
JOHN DRYDEN To live at ease, and not be bound to think.
JOHN DRYDEN A mob is the scum that rises utmost when the nation boils
JOHN DRYDEN To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.
JOHN DRYDEN Even victors are by victory undone
JOHN DRYDEN Sighed and looked, and sighed again.
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JOHN DRYDEN