Quotes by Philip Massinger - Page 2

Without good company all dainties Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes, Are only seen, not tasted.
Philip Massinger / Dramatist
Good Company
Grapes
Relish
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Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
Philip Massinger / Dramatist
Bribery
Gold
Petitions
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How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.
Philip Massinger / Dramatist
Good Woman
Loss
Voice
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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.
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Believe
Play
Secret
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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 / Dramatist
Coward
Fate
Suffering
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Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
Philip Massinger / Dramatist
Sports
Pleasure
Practice
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Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.
Philip Massinger / Dramatist
Fame
Fear Not
Monsters
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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 / Dramatist
Death
Discipline
Lines
Study
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You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
Philip Massinger / Dramatist
Failure
Religious
Ungrateful
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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.
Philip Massinger / Dramatist
Men
Doubt
Wife
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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 / Dramatist
Adversity
Autumn
Summer
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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 / Dramatist
Kings
Slavery
Study
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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 / Dramatist
Night
Quiet
Sleep
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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 / Dramatist
Giving
Justice
Perfect
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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!
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Blessing
Greatness
Mean
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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.
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Honor
Office
Principles
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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 / Dramatist
Men
Ambition
Blessing
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Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd? They must--nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance-- Be often kissed and tasted.
Philip Massinger / Dramatist
Running
Breathing
Useless
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Great men, Till they have gained their ends, are giants in Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. And it is a maxim Allowed among them, so they may deceive, They may swear anything; for the queen of love, As they hold constantly, does never punish, But smile, at lovers' perjuries.
Philip Massinger / Dramatist
Life
Queens
Men
Promise
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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 / Dramatist
Men
Differences
Years
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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.
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Feet
Hands
Sorrow
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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.
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Men
Blood
Order
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