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“Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Ambition #Men #Blessing
“To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Fall #Doubt #Despair
“A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Journey #Mind #Easy
“Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Wise #Fall #Being Wise
“True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....”
-- Philip Massinger

#Honor #Dignity #Lost
“Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Greatness #Challenges #May
“For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Men #Liberty #Wedlock
“0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Summer #Adversity #Autumn
“From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Kings #Slavery #Study
“Before We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us, But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not Enter their profane temples; and for me To hope my passage to eternity Can be made easy, till I have shook off The burthen of my sins in free confession, Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them, Is against reason.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Hands #Feet #Sorrow
“He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Suicide #Lying #Bears
“Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Sleep #Night #Quiet
“Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Office #Honor #Elements
“The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to discharge it, does require Equality of years, of birth, of fortune; For beauty being poor, and not cried up By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither. And wealth, when there's such difference in years, And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Men #Years #Differences
“Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she gives; that does Nothing but what she'll suffer.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Giving #Perfect #Justice
“The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Strong #Soul #Goodness
“Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Innocence #Should
“They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Lust #Safe #Appetite
“Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Cheerful #Looks #Crowns
“Without good company all dainties Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes, Are only seen, not tasted.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Good Company #Grapes #Company
“Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Wealth #Neighbor #Conscience
“As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Men #Blood #Order
“Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Death #Discipline #Lines
“The over curious are not over wise.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Wise #Curiosity #Curious
“Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Gold #Petitions #Bribery
“Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Hurt #Revenge #Soul
“Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Promise #Giants #Weak
“Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.”
-- Philip Massinger

#News #Crutches #Ill
“Gold--the picklock that never fails.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Gold #Failing
“It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.”
-- Philip Massinger

#Fate #Suffering #Coward

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