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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
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Salisbury
England
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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
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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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They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
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Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
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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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Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
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Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.
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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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Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
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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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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
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Nay, droop not, fellows innocence should be bold.
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Be wise soar not too high to fall but stoop to rise.
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Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.
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Gold--the picklock that never fails.
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A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.
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A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.
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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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What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
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