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Quotes by Matthew Prior

Matthew Prior

“Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.”

Matthew Prior

“Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.”

Matthew Prior

“To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.”

Matthew Prior

“Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.”

Matthew Prior

“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”

Matthew Prior

“For hope is but a dream for those that wake.”

Matthew Prior

“Hope is but the dream of those who wake.”

Matthew Prior

“Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.”

Matthew Prior

“The most entertaining email Ive had all week. Great tone.”

Matthew Prior

“When people once are in the wrong, Each line they add is much too long; Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.”

Matthew Prior

“And tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.”

Matthew Prior

“It will be difficult for Toll to match Patricks expectations with any final price likely to be challenging to justify.”

Matthew Prior

And hope is but a dream of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

The end must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is blessd who neer was born.

Matthew Prior

Hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

Hes half absolvd Who has confessd.

Matthew Prior

They never taste who always drink They always talk who never think.

Matthew Prior

Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.

Matthew Prior

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

Matthew Prior