Quotes by Philip Massinger

• Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
• Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
• Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
• Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
• He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
• 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.
• True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
• Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
• To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
• Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
• Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.