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How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.
An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep,
And in his simple show he harbors treason.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep,
And in his simple show he harbors treason.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.
When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.
