John Webster Quotes
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When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
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See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
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That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.
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Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
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Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
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Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.
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All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
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Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.
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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
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Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.
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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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See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.
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Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.
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All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.
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I am Duchess of Malfi still.
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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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Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
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Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.
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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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The soul was never put in the body to stand still.
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Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
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How tedious is a guilty conscience!
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I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.
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Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
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I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.
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How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.
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I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.
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Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.
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