"What pity 'tis, one that can speak so……" — Philip Massinger
"What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!"
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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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....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 Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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