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Philip Massinger
British
Poet
About the author
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
#Love
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
#Man
#Virtue
#Vice
#Ambition
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
#Death
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
#Calamity
He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
#First
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
#Time
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
#Dignity
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
#Lie
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
#Doubt
#Despair
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
#Patience
#Virtue
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
Philip Massinger,
British
Poet
#Malice
#Credit