For 18 months, we had worked on something that mattered: a national system of early learning and child care. Then it was gone.


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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be ...
JOHN DRYDEN
Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
JOHN DRYDEN
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDEN
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love is love's reward.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
JOHN DRYDEN
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN
And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
JOHN DRYDEN
Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
JOHN DRYDEN
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
JOHN DRYDEN
Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
JOHN DRYDEN
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
JOHN DRYDEN
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
JOHN DRYDEN
There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the un...
JOHN DRYDEN
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted...
JOHN DRYDEN
Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpa...
JOHN DRYDEN
The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of bre...
JOHN DRYDEN
Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN