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• For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Book iii, Line 102...
• Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Book ii, Line 364...
• He helde about him alway, out of drede, A world of folke.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Troilus and Creseide, Book iii, Line 1721...
• They talk most who have the least to say. -- Matthew Prio
• Who's to bless and who's to blame?
• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his ow
  He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day....
• They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Upon a passage in the Scaligerana...
• There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,--that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of the Cynic Philosophy, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap. xxii...
• The end must justify the means. -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Hans Carvel