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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. By John Webster

Life isn't our possession, something we own. We're alive as we receive life from God, as the gift of his grace and mercy. By John Webster

Integrity of life is fame's best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. By John Webster

What a strange creature is a laughing fool,As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth. By John Webster

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe. By John Webster

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. By John Webster

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. By John Webster

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history. By John Webster

Are you out of your princely wits?What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil! By John Webster

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her. By John Webster

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

Ha, ha, ha, thou entanglest thyself in thine own work like a silkworm. By John Webster

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty ... By John Webster

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither. By John Webster

O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions. By John Webster

What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it. By John Webster

And great men do great good, or else great harm. By John Webster

I am Duchess of Malfi still. By John Webster

DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value,They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands.FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious. By John Webster

Fortune's a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop. By John Webster

Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try: We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. By John Webster

The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes with the sword of justice. By John Webster

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action ... the soul was never put into the body to stand still. By John Webster

Lovers die inward that their flames conceal. By John Webster

I account this world a tedious theater,For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will. By John Webster

Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge,Which dwells but in the tongue! By John Webster

Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other. By John Webster

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness. By John Webster

Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest. By John Webster

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire. By John Webster

We endure the strokes like anvils or hard steel,Till pain itself make us no pain to feel. By John Webster

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise. By John Webster

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young. By John Webster

Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle. By John Webster

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing. By John Webster

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lustLike diamonds we are cut with our own dust By John Webster

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. By John Webster

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power! By John Webster

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard. By John Webster

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light. By John Webster

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. By John Webster

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands. By John Webster

O me, this place is hell. By John Webster

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. By John Webster

You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery,Enters the devil murder. By John Webster

Pull and pull strongly for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me By John Webster

How tedious is a guilty conscience! By John Webster

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. By John Webster

Sometimes the Devil doth preach. By John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them. By John Webster

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

Let guilty men remember, their black deedsDo lean on crutches made of slender reeds. By John Webster

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. By John Webster

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction. By John Webster

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. By John Webster

Love mixed with fear is sweetness. By John Webster

All things do help the unhappy man to fall. By John Webster

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast. By John Webster

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it. By John Webster

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. By John Webster

That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier. By John Webster

Black-birds fatten best in hard weather By John Webster

As in this world there are degrees of evils, So in this world there are degrees of devils. By John Webster

If all my royal kindred Lay in my way unto this marriage,I'ld make them my low foot-steps By John Webster

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through. By John Webster

The soul was never put in the body to stand still. By John Webster

The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us. By John Webster

What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious? By John Webster

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched. By John Webster

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin. By John Webster

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise. By John Webster