Philip Massinger Quotes

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

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, first should be the master of himself.

He that knows no guilt can know no fear.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.

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.

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.

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.

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.

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