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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Preferment goes by letter and affection.
Preferment goes by letter and affection.
There was not a greater gourmand living.
There was not a greater gourmand living.
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.
Too much of anything is bad.
Too much of anything is bad.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Every bullet has its billet.
Every bullet has its billet.
