"For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest…" — John Webster
"For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom."
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24 Quotes by John Webster
John Webster has 24 quotes on this site.
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Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
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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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When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for…
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We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
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All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
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Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
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Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
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In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in…
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Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
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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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More Folly Quotes
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the…
— Mary Astell
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all…
— Teresa of Avila
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
— Abu Bakr
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none…
— John Quincy Adams
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life…
— Bernard Baruch
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by…
— Joseph Addison
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
— Josh Billings
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