Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
About Philip Massinger
Philip Massingerwas an English dramatist. His finely plotted plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam, and The Roman Actor, are noted for their satire and realism, and their political and social themes.
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Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
English playwright (1583-1640)
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
English playwright (1583-1640)
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
English playwright (1583-1640)
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
English playwright (1583-1640)
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
English playwright (1583-1640)
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
English playwright (1583-1640)
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
English playwright (1583-1640)
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
English playwright (1583-1640)
He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
English playwright (1583-1640)
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
English playwright (1583-1640)
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
English playwright (1583-1640)
Patience, the beggar’s virtue, shall find no harbor here.
English playwright (1583-1640)