"He that would govern others, first should be……" — Philip Massinger
"He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself."
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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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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…
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....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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More Govern Quotes
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
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I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
— Antonio Banderas
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
— John Mason Brown
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
— Albert Camus
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To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And…
— Joan of Arc
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Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
— Laozi
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God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He…
— Charles Colson
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
— Thomas Paine
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