Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Doctors
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Hope, Dreams
Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind.
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Marriage, Women
Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Goals
Variety alone gives joy; the sweetest meats the soonest cloy.
—Matthew Prior
Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Tact
And ’tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Talking, Boredom, Speakers, Bores, Speaking
Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Dreams, Hope
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Arguments, Argument
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
Topics: Debt
The daily showers rejoice the thirsty earth, and bless the flowery buds.
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Rain
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
Topics: Love
They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Conversation
The ends must justify the means.
—Matthew Prior
The end must justify the means.
—Matthew Prior
Human science is an uncertain guess.
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Science
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
—Matthew Prior
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
—Matthew Prior
Topics: Singing
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