“When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.”
Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster
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“For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.”
Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster
“Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.”
Source: The Duchess of Malfi
“All things do help the unhappy man to fall.”
Source: The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes
Source: Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden
“Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.”
“Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.”
Source: The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes
Source: The Duchess of Malfi
“That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.”
Source: The Duchess of Malfi
Source: The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes
“All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.”
“Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.”
Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster
“Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.”
Source: The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes
“See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.”
“The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.”
“Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.”
Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster
“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”
Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster