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Philip Massinger (1583 – 17 March 1640) was an English dramatist. His finely plotted plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam and The Roman Actor, are noted for their satire and realism, and their political and social themes.

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From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.

Gradation, Grant, Kings, Please, Slavery, Study

Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.

Lose, Loses, Name, Names, Virgin, Virgins

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

Ambition, Men, Prince, Vice, Vices

The over curious are not over wise.

Curiosity, Curious, Wise

Before We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us, But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not Enter their profane temples; and for me To hope my passage to eternity Can be made easy, till I have shook off The burthen of my sins in free confession, Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them, Is against reason.

Dar, Feet, Fit, Hands, Sorrow

If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.

Course, Courses, Like, Reputation, Suicide

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

Calamity, Coward, Cowards, Fate, Suffering, True

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

Easy, Journey, Mind, Willing

As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.

Blood, Evident, Men, Order, Particular, Unpolished

I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.

Defend, Emperor, Home, House

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

Gladly, Pleasure, Practice, Sports, Stews

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.

Born, Death, Discipline, Lines

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

Dignity, Gained, Honor, Lost, Place, Withdrawn

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.

Blemish, Fame, Fear Not, Monster, Monsters, Wound

The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to discharge it, does require Equality of years, of birth, of fortune; For beauty being poor, and not cried up By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither. And wealth, when there's such difference in years, And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy.

Differences, Fortune, Men, Require, Uneasy, Years

He that knows no guilt can know no fear.

Fear, Guilt, Know, Knows, No Fear

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

Fall, High, Rise, Soar, Wise

They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.

Appetite, Know, Lust, Safe, Serve

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

Desire, Men, Weakness, Wise

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

Graze, Man, Marriage, Married, Men

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