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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

  Death, Discipline, Lines

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

  Philip Massinger

  Patience, Virtue, Harbors

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• They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.

  Philip Massinger

  Lust, Safe, Appetite

  1626 The Roman Actor, act1, sc.1.

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• The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Law, Safety

  Philip Massinger, Hartley Coleridge, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.440

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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

  Men, Years, Differences

  Thomas Dekker, Philip Massinger (2010). “Elizabethan Drama II”, p.875, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Philip Massinger

  Favour, Courtesy

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1840). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an Introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.189

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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.

  Philip Massinger

  Office, Honor, Principles

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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!

  Philip Massinger

  Mean, Blessing, Greatness

  1627 The Great Duke of Florence, act1, sc.1.

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• Giants in
  Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies
  In their performance.

  Philip Massinger

  Promise, Giants, Weak

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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

  Monsters, Fame, Fear Not

  Philip Massinger (1813). “The Plays”, p.479

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• Without good company all dainties
  Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes,
  Are only seen, not tasted.

  Philip Massinger

  Good Company, Grapes, Relish

  Philip Massinger (1813). “The Plays”, p.268

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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.

  Philip Massinger

  Believe, Play, Secret

  Philip Massinger (1779). “The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger...”, p.242

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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

  Sleep, Night, Quiet

  Philip Massinger (1817). “Beauties of Massinger”, p.246

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• If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.

  Philip Massinger

  Suicide, Reputation, Courses

  Philip Massinger, John Philip Kemble (1814). “A New Way to pay Old Debts. A comedy in five acts”, p.24

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• Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

  Philip Massinger

  Performances

  'The Parliament of Love' (1624) act 4, sc. 2

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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

  Sports, Practice, Pleasure

  1626 Of the theatre. The Roman Actor, act1, sc.1.

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• Black detraction will find faults where they are not.

  Philip Massinger

  Black, Faults

  Philip Massinger, Philip Edwards, Colin Gibson (1976). “The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger:”, p.128, Oxford University Press on Demand

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