There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Quote by John Dryden

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By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was...

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was...

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

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

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

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...

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we...

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we...

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.

All heiresses are beautiful.

All heiresses are beautiful.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is...

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is...

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it...

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it...

For they conquer who believe they can.

For they conquer who believe they can.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their...

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their...

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest...

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest...