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Matthew Prior (1664 – 1721)


English poet and diplomat.
Matthew Prior
He ranged his tropes, and preached up patience;
Backed his opinion with quotations.
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Abra was ready ere I called her name;
And though I called another, Abra came.
Prior
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.




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His noble negligences teach
What others' toils despair to reach.
Prior Matthew
A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale.
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They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.
Matthew Prior
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
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Venus, take my votive glass;
Since I am not what I was,
What from this day I shall be,
Venus, let me never see.
Prior
That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.
Prior Matthew
Cured yesterday of my disease,
I died last night of my physician.
Matthew Prior
Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart,
And often took leave, but was loth to depart.




Matthew Prior quotes
Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.
Matthew Prior
All jargon of the schools.
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Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim
At objects in an airy height;
The little pleasure of the game
Is from afar to view the flight.
Prior Matthew
Till their own dreams at length decive 'em,
And oft repeating, they believe 'em.
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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
Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
Matthew Prior quotes
The end must justify the means.
Matthew Prior
That if weak women went astray,
Their stars were more in fault than they.
Prior Matthew
Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind.


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