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So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness.
John Milton
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

Oliver Goldsmith

— 1770  The Deserted Village, l.51-6.

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Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed.

Oliver Goldsmith

— 1770  The Deserted Village, l.295.

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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;A breath can make them, as a breath has made;But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

Oliver Goldsmith

— Line 51.

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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.

william wordsworth

— The Fountain, st. 8 & 9 (1799).

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The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.

theocritus

— Idyll 26, line 36; translation by C. S. Calverley, from Theocritus, translated into English Verse.

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As we pledge the health of our general, who fares as rough as we, What can daunt us, what can turn us, led to death by such as he?

Charles Kingsley

— Charles Kingsley, A March. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)

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The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.


— Idyll 26, line 36; translation by C. S. Calverley, from Theocritus, translated into English Verse.

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Beneath this stone old Abraham lies; Nobody laughs and nobody cries. Where he is gone, and how he fares, Nobody knows and nobody cares.


— On the monument of Abraham Newland, principal cashier of the Bank of England (Died, 1807; his own lines); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 232.

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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade A breath can make them, as a breath has made But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied.

Oliver Goldsmith

— Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 51.

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This battle fares like to the morning's war, When dying clouds contend with growing light; What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails, Can neither call it perfect day, nor night.


— King Henry, scene v

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