Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDENHe trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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War is the trade of kings.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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