Fashioned Us Quotes by John Webster

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• Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
• Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
• When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst…
• We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
• All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
• Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
• For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
• Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
• Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
• Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
• In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
• Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

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