Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDEN
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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