"I had not to this time subsisted, but……" — Philip Massinger
"I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours."
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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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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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....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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What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!
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More Courtesies Quotes
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one of 20 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation…
— Ayn Rand
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring…
— Michael Josephson
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Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical…
— Michael Josephson
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A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society…
— Mas Oyama
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When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in…
— Stephen Covey
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The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a…
— Nelson Mandela
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No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
— William Shakespeare
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Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which…
— Laurence Sterne
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At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to…
— Peter Farb
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