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John Webster Biography

John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) 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. His life and career overlapped William Shakespeare's.

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

Body, Soul, Stand, Stills

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

Conscience, Guilt, Guilty, Tedious

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

God, Man, Men, Wolfe, Woman

Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse' d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er.

Atheist, Body, House, Palace, Soul

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

Fire, Hell, Light, Run, Running

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

Breast, Breasts, Friends, Lay, Stills

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

Child, Children, Sin, Sorrow

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

Action, Actions, Arguments, Example, Man, Men

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

Black, Evil, Let, Men, Reeds

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

Air, Boys, Greatness, Like, Wanton

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

Knowledge, Knowledge Is Power, Motivational, Power, Smart

I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage 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.

Birds, Despair, Fear, Heart, Summer

Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.

Girdle, Girdles, Lust, Sharp, Whips

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.

Falsely, Husband, Ills, Law, Spring, Supreme

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

Beast, Children, Good, Habit, Men

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

Long, Virtue, Wages

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Fall, Help, Men, Things, Unhappy

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

Born, Dare, Forced, Misery

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

Brook, Doctors, Kings, Like, Physicians

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

Blow, Fashion, Fashions, Heard, Political, Sins

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