Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
JOHN DRYDENPoliticians neither love nor hate.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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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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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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