PMPhilip Massinger

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Philip Massinger

Life dates: 1584 AD — 1640 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1612 AD

Some undone widow sits upon mine arm, And takes away the use of it; and my sword, Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears, Will not be drawn.

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02c. 1612 AD

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

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03c. 1612 AD

This many-headed monster.

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04c. 1612 AD

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

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05c. 1612 AD

0 summer friendship whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity With the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity.

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06c. 1612 AD

Immature poets imitate: mature poets steal.

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07c. 1612 AD

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

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08c. 1612 AD

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

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