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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

John Dryden

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
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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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dance Foot Poetry
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Design God Mindset Ruin
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

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