Who pants for glory finds but short repose:

A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 300.

When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 38.