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Quotes by Matthew Prior

Matthew Prior

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

And hope is but a dream of those that wake.

The end must justify the means.

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

Hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Hes half absolvd Who has confessd.

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

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

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.