"Be wise; soar not too high to fall;…" — Philip Massinger
"Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise."
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30 Quotes by Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger has 30 quotes on this site.
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To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall…
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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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How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all…
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....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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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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