"You may boldly say, you did not plough……" — Philip Massinger
"You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels."
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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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....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 Barren Quotes
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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will…
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Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a…
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The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and…
— Unknown Author
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at…
— George Eliot
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
— Huston Smith
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference…
— Francis Bacon
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Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
— Claude Debussy
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is…
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