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Matthew Prior Quotes (1664-1721)
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Matthew Prior (July 21, 1664 – September 18, 1721) was an English poet and diplomat.
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“His noble negligences teach
What others' toils despair to reach.”
What others' toils despair to reach.”
“That if weak women went astray,
Their stars were more in fault than they.”
Their stars were more in fault than they.”
“That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.”
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.”
“And thought the nation ne'er would thrive
Till all the whores were burnt alive.”
Till all the whores were burnt alive.”
“He ranged his tropes, and preached up patience;
Backed his opinion with quotations.”
Backed his opinion with quotations.”
“Venus, take my votive glass;
Since I am not what I was,
What from this day I shall be,
Venus, let me never see.”
Since I am not what I was,
What from this day I shall be,
Venus, let me never see.”
“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.”
But John, unhappily, thought fit
To publish it to all the nation:
Sure John and I are more than quit.”
“Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind;
Let all her ways be unconfined;
And clap your padlock — on her mind!”
Be to her faults a little blind;
Let all her ways be unconfined;
And clap your padlock — on her mind!”
“Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives
She builds our quiet as she forms our lives;
Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,
And opens in each heart a little heaven.”
She builds our quiet as she forms our lives;
Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,
And opens in each heart a little heaven.”
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Matthew Prior on Evil 3 quotes
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“One single positive weighs more, You know, than negatives a score.”
Matthew Prior on Life 3 quotes
“Amid two seas, on one small point of land, Wearied, uncertain, and amazed we stand.”
Matthew Prior on Hope 2 quotes
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“'Tis not how well an author says, But 'tis how much, that gathers praise.”
Matthew Prior on Mail 2 quotes
“And oft the pangs of absence to remove By letters, soft interpreters of love.”
Matthew Prior on Beauty 2 quotes
“For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.”
Matthew Prior on Character 2 quotes
“So much his courage and his mercy strive, He wounds to cure, and conquers to forgive.”
Matthew Prior on Work 2 quotes
“The man who by his labour gets His bread, in independent state, Who never begs, and seldom eats, Himself can fix or change his fate.”
Matthew Prior on Medicine 2 quotes
“But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician, Cur'd yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.”
Matthew Prior on Astronomy
“At night astronomers agree.”
Matthew Prior on Water
Matthew Prior on Neglect
“His noble negligences teach What others' toils despair to reach.”
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Matthew Prior on Women 3 quotes
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Matthew Prior (July 21, 1664 – September 18, 1721) was an English poet and diplomat.