Philip Massinger
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.Collection: Patience
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.Collection: Death
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.Collection: Journey
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.Collection: Success
Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.Collection: Beauty
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.Collection: Greatness
Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.Collection: Wealth
Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.Collection: News
The over curious are not over wise.Collection: Wise
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.Collection: Pain
I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.Collection: Home
A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.Collection: Gold
For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.Collection: Men
The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.Collection: Strong
He that knows no guilt can know no fear.Collection: Guilt
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.Collection: Accusation
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.Collection: Cheerful
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.Collection: Doors
0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.Collection: Summer
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.Collection: Loss
What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!Collection: Ice
And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.Collection: Men
Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.Collection: Innocence
Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!Collection: Mean
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.Collection: Sports
Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.Collection: Performances
If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.Collection: Suicide
Black detraction will find faults where they are not.Collection: Black
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.Collection: Believe
He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly gratefulCollection: Grateful
Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.Collection: Gold