Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

Let him fry in his own grease.

Let him fry in his own grease.

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

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.

A brute without a single redeeming point.

A brute without a single redeeming point.

The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.

The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever
more shall we be able to recall it.

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

We may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running.

We may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running.