Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; … - John Webster

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Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.

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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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.

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

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.

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees. - John Webster

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