Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all.

Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all.

Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

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.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.

And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.

Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.

Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.

A little and good fills the trencher.

A little and good fills the trencher.

I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife
that shall be my master.]

Much matter decocted into few words.

Much matter decocted into few words.