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

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Philip Massinger The Bondman

The Bondman (1623), Act I, scene iii http://books.google.com/books?id=K0cNAQAAMAAJ&q=%22He+that+would+govern+others+first+should+be+the+master+of+himself%22&pg=PA193#v=onepage.

“This many-headed monster,
The giddy multitude.”

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Philip Massinger The Roman Actor

The Roman Actor (1626), Act iii. Sc. 2. Compare: "Many-headed multitude", Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesy, Book ii; "Many-headed multitude", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act ii, scene 3; "This many-headed monster, Multitude", Daniel, History of the Civil War, book ii, st. 13.

“The good needs fear no law,
It is his safety and the bad man's awe.”

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Philip Massinger The Old Law

The Old Law (c. 1615–18; printed 1656), with Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.

“Cause me no causes.”

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Philip Massinger A New Way to Pay Old Debts

A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1625), act i. sc. 3. See X me no X's.

“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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A New Way to pay Old Debts (1625), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "From thousands of our undone widows / One may derive some wit", Thomas Middleton, A Trick to catch the Old One (1605), Act i, Scene 2.

“Quiet night that brings
Rest to the labourer, is the outlaw's day,
In which he rises early to do wrong,
And when his work is ended, dares not sleep.”

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Philip Massinger The Guardian

The Guardian (1633), Act II, scene iv.

“To doubt
Is worse than to have lost; and to despair
Is but to antedate those miseries
That must fall on us.”

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Duke of Milan (1623), Act I, scene iii.

“Virtue, if not in action, is a vice,
And, when we move not forward, we go backward.”

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Philip Massinger The Maid of Honour

The Maid of Honour (c. 1621; printed 1632), Act I, scene i.

“What a sea
Of melting ice I walk on!”

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Philip Massinger The Maid of Honour

The Maid of Honour (c. 1621; printed 1632), Act III, scene iii.

“Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.”

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Philip Massinger A Very Woman

A Very Woman (1619), Act v. Sc. 4. Compare: "Death hath so many doors to let out life", Beaumont and Fletcher, The Custom of the Country, act ii. sc. 2; "The thousand doors that lead to death", Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, part i, sect. xliv.