Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd… - John Webster

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

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John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist, a late contemporary of William Shakespeare. His tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.

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Of what is't fools make such vain keeping?
Sin their conception, their birth, weeping:
Their life, a general mist of error,
Their death, a hideous storm of terror.

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?
So may you blame some fair and crystal river
For that some melancholic, distracted man
Hath drown'd himself in 't.

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

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

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