John Dryden

(15 votes)   Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

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

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(12 votes)   A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

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(12 votes)   It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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(12 votes)   To die is landing on some distant shore.

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(9 votes)   What passions cannot music raise or quell?

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(8 votes)   Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

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(228 votes)   Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

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1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

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(222 votes)   Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

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(123 votes)   Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

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(118 votes)   Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

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English poet, dramatist and critic. (1631-1700)

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(117 votes)   So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

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(113 votes)   Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

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(112 votes)   Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

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(106 votes)   Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

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