Philip Massinger

“He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.”

“I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.”

“Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.”

“To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.”

“Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.”

“Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.”

“Let us love temperately, things violent last not.”

“Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.”

“True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.”

“He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.”

“Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.”

“Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.”