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Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

John Webster

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.

John Webster

'T is just like a summer bird-cage 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.

John Webster

Leave thy idle questions;
I am i'th'way to study a long silence,
To prate were idle.

John Webster

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.

John Webster

John Webster

John Webster

Born: 1578

Died: 1634 (aged 56)

Bio: John Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.

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