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John Webster Quotes: The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
         

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.


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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.



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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.



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