John Webster Quotes
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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
[Luck]
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A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
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All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
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Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
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Glories, like glow-worms afar off, shine bright, but looked at near have neither heat nor light.
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Gold that buys health can never be ill spent; nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
[Health]
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Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
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Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees.
[Humility]
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I do love these ancient ruins. - We never tread upon them but we set our foot upon some reverend history.
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In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
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Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
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Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
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Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
[Sorrow]
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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
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There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
[Anger]
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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
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