"John Webster" was an English Literature in English#Jacobean literature/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. His life and career overlapped with that of William Shakespeare.

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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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Life's the greates torture sould feel in hell, In hell: that they must live, and cannot die.

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There's nothing sooner dry than women's tears.

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

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

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Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

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Gold that buys health can never be ill spent; nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

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