| 36 Famous Quotes by Matthew Prior
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“Of two evils I have chose the least.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Imitation of Horace (bk. I, ep. IX)
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“Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: To a Person who Wrote Ill--On Same Person
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“Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto
you.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: To a Person who Wrote Ill--On Same Person
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“He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: To a Person who Wrote Ill--On Same Person
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“Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your depth.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: To a Person who Wrote Ill--On Same Person
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“To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: To a Person who Wrote Ill--On Same Person
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“When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good
imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a
good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force;
it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it
has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."”
Style Quotes Source: Life of Burke
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“Instinct and reason how can we divide?
'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.”
Instinct Quotes Source: Solomon on the Vices of the World (bk. I, l. 231)
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“When people once are in the wrong,
Each line they add is much too long;
Who fastest walks, but walks astray,
Is only furthest from his way.”
Errors Quotes Source: Alma (canto III, l. 194)
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“To err is human.”
Errors Quotes Source: Alma (canto III, l. 194)
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“Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart,
And often took leave; but was loth to part.”
Parting Quotes Source: The Thief and the Cordelier
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“Variety alone gives joy;
The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.”
Variety Quotes Source: The Turtle and the Sparrow (l. 234)
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“Thy sum of duty let two words contain,
(O may they graven in thy heart remain!)
Be humble and be just.”
Duty Quotes Source: Solomon on the Vanity of the World (bk. III)
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“What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear
The public burthen of the nation's care.”
Royalty Quotes Source: Solomon (bk. III, l. 275)
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“Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.
- Matthew Prior,”
Doctrine Quotes Source: To Dr. Sherlock--On his Practical Discourse Concerning Death
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“I never strove to rule the roast,
She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.”
Cookery Quotes Source: Turtle and Sparrow
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“You tell your doctor, that y' are ill
And what does he, but write a bill,
Of which you need not read one letter,
The worse the scrawl, the dose the better.
For if you knew but what you take,
Though you recover, he must break.”
Medicine Quotes Source: Alma (canto III, l. 97)
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“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.”
Medicine Quotes Source: The Remedy Worse than the Disease
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“Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt,
loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.”
Medicine Quotes Source: The Remedy Worse than the Disease
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“The end must justify the means.”
End Quotes Source: Hans Carvel (l. 67)
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“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”
Songs Quotes Source: A Better Answer
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“They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.”
Talk Quotes Source: Upon a Passage in the Scaligerana
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“Or have you mark'd a partridge quake,
Viewing the towering falcon nigh?
She cuddles low behind the brake:
Nor would she stay; nor dares she fly.”
Partridges Quotes Source: The Dove (st. 14)
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“Ev'n so, with all submission, I
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Send you each year a homely letter,
Who may return me much a better.”
Post Quotes Source: Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd (l. 23)
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“And oft the pangs of absence to remove
By letters, soft interpreters of love.”
Post Quotes Source: Henry and Emma (l. 147)
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