Matthew Prior famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
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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.
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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
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Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.
-- Matthew Prior
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Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
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I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.
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My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
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Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.
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In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone.
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
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I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.
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Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
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