Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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What the first sprightly running could not give.

Aurengzebe. Act iv. Sc. 1.

'T is not for nothing that we life pursue;

It pays our hopes with something still that 's new.

Aurengzebe. Act iv. Sc. 1.

All delays are dangerous in war.

Tyrannic Love. Act i. Sc. 1.

Pains of love be sweeter far

Than all other pleasures are.

Tyrannic Love. Act iv. Sc. 1.