They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDENSwift was the race, but short the time to run.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Merit challenges envy.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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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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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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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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