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Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
It's not good fishing before the net.
It's not good fishing before the net.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
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.
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours.
All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours.
The sun sets without thy assistance.
The sun sets without thy assistance.
Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows,
Cupid averse rejects divided vows.
Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows,
Cupid averse rejects divided vows.