Philip Massinger Quotes

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• To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
• My dancing days are past.
• I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
• Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
• Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
• How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.
• True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....
• Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
• A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.
• Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.
• But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
• Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.
• What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!
• This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
• Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.
• Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.
• You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
• What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
• 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…
• 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.

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