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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Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.

Call for the robin redbreast and the wren,
Since o'er shady groves they hover,
And with leaves and flowers do cover
The friendless bodies of unburied men.

Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near have neither heat nor light.

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

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