Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like diamonds,… - John Webster

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

John Webster

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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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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.

I saw him going the way of all flesh.

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.

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

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