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• Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Imitation of Horace, Book iii, Ode 29, Line 71...
• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his ow
  He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day....
• I can enjoy her while she 's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Imitation of Horace, Book iii, Ode 29, Line 81...
• Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iii, Line 99...
• Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all, Both the great vulgar and the small.
  -- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- Horace, Book iii, Ode 1...
• Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Translation of Horace, Book i, Ode 5...
• Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Amphitryon, Act iii, Sc.
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• But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 198...
• Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.