21 ordspråk av Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue
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And what, in a mean man, I should call folly,/ Is in your majesty remarkable wisdom.
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Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise
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Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one
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Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one
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He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
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He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself
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I am driven / Into a desperate strait and cannot steer / A middle course.
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Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
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Like a rough orator, that brings more truth than rhetoric, to make good his accusation
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Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation
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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
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Now speak, / Or be for ever silent.
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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
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Pray enter, You are learned Europeans, and we worse Than ignorant Americans
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