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

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

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About John Webster

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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