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Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.
— Philip Massinger
Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.
— Philip Massinger
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
— Philip Massinger
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.
— Philip Massinger
And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.
— Philip Massinger
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
— Philip Massinger
Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.
— Philip Massinger
My dancing days are past.
— Philip Massinger
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
— Philip Massinger
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
— Philip Massinger
Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.
— Philip Massinger
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
— Philip Massinger
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
— Philip Massinger
Detraction's a bold monster, and fears notTo wound the fame of princes, if it find
But any blemish in their lives to work on. — Philip Massinger
The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.
— Philip Massinger
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
— Philip Massinger
Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.
— Philip Massinger
The over curious are not over wise.
— Philip Massinger
Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.
— Philip Massinger
It is true fortitude to stand firm againstAll shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity. — Philip Massinger
He that would govern others first should be master of himself.
— Philip Massinger
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.
— Philip Massinger
The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.
— Philip Massinger
Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
— Philip Massinger
Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
— Philip Massinger
Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.
— Philip Massinger
He that knows no guilt can know no fear.
— Philip Massinger
Goldthe picklock that never fails. — Philip Massinger
One grain of incense with devotion offer'd'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices. — Philip Massinger
Without good company all daintiesLose their true relish, and like painted grapes,
Are only seen, not tasted. — Philip Massinger
A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.
— Philip Massinger
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
— Philip Massinger
0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.
— Philip Massinger
I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.
— Philip Massinger
What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
— Philip Massinger
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
— Philip Massinger
They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
— Philip Massinger
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
— Philip Massinger
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
— Philip Massinger
What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!
— Philip Massinger
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
— Philip Massinger
He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful
— Philip Massinger
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.
— Philip Massinger
Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
— Philip Massinger
This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
— Philip Massinger
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
— Philip Massinger
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
— Philip Massinger
Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.
— Philip Massinger
For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.
— Philip Massinger
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.
— Philip Massinger
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!
— Philip Massinger
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
— Philip Massinger
Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.
— Philip Massinger
From the kingTo the beggar, by gradation, all are servants;
And you must grant, the slavery is less
To study to please one, than many. — Philip Massinger
