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Matthew Prior
July 21, 1664 - September 18, 1721
Nationality: English
Category: Poet
Subcategory: English Poet

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

   

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.

   

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

   

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

   

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

   

They talk most who have the least to say.

   

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

   

The ends must justify the means.

   

For hope is but a dream for those that wake.

   

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