Author » Massinger, Philip

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

Patience, the beggar’s virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

Poetry and Poets

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

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

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