Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDENHe who would search for pearls must dive below.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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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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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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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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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN






