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Yet stay, heaven gates are not so highly arch'd As princes' palaces; they that enter there, Must go upon their knees.

— John Webster

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Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.

The White Devil (1612)

I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.

Duchess of Malfi (1623)

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.

Duchess of Malfi (1623)

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.

Duchess of Malfi (1623)

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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