John Webster - Men Quotes

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Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

John Webster

Call for the robin redbreast and the wren,
Since o'er shady groves they hover,
And with leaves and flowers do cover
The friendless bodies of unburied men.

John Webster

But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.

John Webster

I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.

John Webster

Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren,
Since o'er shady groves they hover,
And with leaves and flowers do cover
The friendless bodies of unburied men.

John Webster

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

John Webster