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John Webster

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John Webster was a London-born playwright, poet, and writer associated with the English Renaissance theatre movement.

Born in London in 1578, Webster was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. He wrote in English and died in London in 1634.

Two of his notable works are The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, both plays produced within the context of English Renaissance theatre. These works are among the titles most consistently attached to Webster's name as a playwright.

Webster's writing is associated with the genre of Shakespearean comedy as well as the broader English Renaissance theatre movement, and his output spans the roles of playwright, poet, and writer.

Quotes by John Webster

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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
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One thing we might do is to try day by day to grasp something which is the simplest and yet the hardest thing for any of us to grasp: that the gospel is true; that growth in the Christian life is simply growth in seeing that the gospel is true; that Jesus Christ is the preeminent reality of all things.
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One thing we might do is to try day by day to grasp something which is the simplest and yet the hardest thing for any of us to grasp: that the gospel is true; that growth in the Christian life is simply growth in seeing that the gospel is true; that Jesus Christ is the preeminent reality of all things.
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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.
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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.
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We are merely the star’s tennis balls, struck and banded Which way please them.
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We are merely the star’s tennis balls, struck and banded Which way please them.
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Think’t the best voyage that e’er you made like an irregular crab which, though’t goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes its own way.
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Think’t the best voyage that e’er you made like an irregular crab which, though’t goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes its own way.
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I have long served virtue, And never ta’en wages of her.
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I have long served virtue, And never ta’en wages of her.
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When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty...
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When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty...
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When a man’s mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
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When a man’s mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
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Sometimes the Devil doth preach.
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Sometimes the Devil doth preach.
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Black-birds fatten best in hard weather.
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Black-birds fatten best in hard weather.
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