John Webster Quotes
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When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
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All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
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Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal riverFor that some melancholic, distracted manHath drown'd himself in 't.
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Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
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Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.
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Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,But looked to near have neither heat nor light.
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Vain the ambition of kingsWho seek by trophies and dead thingsTo leave a living name behind,And weave but nets to catch the wind.