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

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

John Dryden
Running, Time, Race
1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.837.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

John Dryden
Running, Rivers, Sea
John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.44

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.

John Dryden
Running, Past, Thinking
'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

John Dryden
Running, Destiny, Wind
John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.17

When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; 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. Strange cozenage! 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.

John Dryden
Life, Running, Lying
'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.

John Dryden
Running, Church, Doctrine
John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.300, Pearson Education

What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

John Dryden
Running, Giving, Judgment
'Fables Ancient and Modern' (1700) preface

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