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Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.
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
Philip Massinger
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He is not valiant that dares lie but he that boldly bears calamity.
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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
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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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Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.
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Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
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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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It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.
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A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.
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They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
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The over curious are not over wise.
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He that knows no guilt can know no fear.
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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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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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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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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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Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
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Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
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Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.
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What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!
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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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