Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDENNo government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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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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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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