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

Quote by Philip Massinger

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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn

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

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

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

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

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

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

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

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

Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

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

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

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

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

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent...

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent...

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

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

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

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

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

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate...

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate...

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

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