The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Quote by John Dryden

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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor...

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

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

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

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for...

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for...

And plenty makes us poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who...

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who...

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the...

He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the...

Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds...

Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds...

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Successful crimes alone are justified

Successful crimes alone are justified

What is neither a crime nor a sin is what you should get busy doing.

What is neither a crime nor a sin is what you should get busy doing.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused