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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....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