John Webster Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by John Webster:
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
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Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
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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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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
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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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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
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Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
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We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
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All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
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Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
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When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
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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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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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Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
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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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A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
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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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