"What can innocence hope for, When such as……" — Philip Massinger
"What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!"
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Philip Massinger
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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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....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 Corrupted Quotes
This quote is filed under Corrupted Quotes,
one of 178 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous…
— Charley Reese
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The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too…
— Edward V. Long
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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly…
— Marianne Williamson
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Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too…
— William Shakespeare
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does…
— Thomas Paine
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...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will…
— Noah Webster
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[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
— Algernon Sidney
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Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
— Albert Einstein
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Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.
— Manis Friedman
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
— Seneca the Younger
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