Philip Massinger - The City Madam

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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.

Philip Massinger

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

Philip Massinger

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks, it ravishes all senses.

Philip Massinger

Pray enter
You are learned Europeans and we worse
Than ignorant Americans.

Philip Massinger

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

Philip Massinger

Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.

Philip Massinger