Quotes from Philip Massinger

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

He that would govern others should first be the master of himself.

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

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.

He who would govern others, first should be master of himself.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.