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Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
Philip Massinger
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Philip Massinger
Age: 57 †
Born: 1583
Born: January 1
Died: 1640
Died: January 1
Dramatist
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Salisbury
England
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Malice scorned, puts out itself but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
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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.
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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.
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Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.
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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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Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
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Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
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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.
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Be wise soar not too high to fall but stoop to rise.
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They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
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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.
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He is not valiant that dares lie but he that boldly bears calamity.
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To doubt is worse than to have lost And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
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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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The over curious are not over wise.
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What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!
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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.
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Nay, droop not, fellows innocence should be bold.
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What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
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