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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...
• 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...
• And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Imitation of Horace, Book iii, Ode 29, Line 87...
• We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
  -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)...
• The Worst Lines of Verse For a start, we can rule out James Grainger's promising line
  "Come, muse, let us sing of rats." Grainger (1721-67) did not have the courage of his convictions and deleted these words on discovering that his listeners dissolved into spontaneous laughter the instant they were read out....
• We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
  -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (65-8 B.C.)...
• Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. -- John Dryde
• I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute
  and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he like...
• Happy is he who dashes the heads of his enemy's children against rocks.