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Matthew Prior
English
Poet
About the author
Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet
#Dreams
They talk most who have the least to say.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet
#Talk
They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet
#Talk
#Taste
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet
#End
#Quarrel
Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet
#Hope
#Dream
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet
#Virtue
#Beauty
For hope is but a dream for those that wake.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet
#Hope
#Dream
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,
English
Poet
#Heart
#Anger
Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet
#Night
#Disease
#Yesterday
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet
#Virtue
#Blind
#Faults
And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet
#Talk
#Remarkable
Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet
The ends must justify the means.
Matthew Prior,
English
Poet