What's this flesh? A little cruded milk
Fantastical puff-paste. Our bodies are weaker than those
Paper prisons boys use to keep flies in; more contemptible,
Since our is to preserve earth-worms. Didst thou ever seen
A lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body: this world
Is like her little turf of grass, and the heaven o'er our heads
Like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge
Of the small compass of our prison.
What a strange creature is a laughing fool,
As if a man were created to no use
But only to show his teeth.
Mots clés life people stupidity-of-man
The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
John Websterwe had need to borrow that fantastic glass,invented by Galileo the Florentine
To view another spacious world in the moon
and look to find a constant woman there
I account this world a tedious theater,
For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.
Mots clés inspirational-quotes
The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes with the sword of justice.
John WebsterMots clés ispirational
Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.
Mots clés life integrity death fame
Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.
Mots clés humility tragedy jacobean-drama revenge-drama
If all my royal kindred
Lay in my way unto this marriage,
I'ld make them my low foot-steps
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