The great would have none great and the little all little.

The great would have none great and the little all little.

For no one cares for matrimonial cooings,
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.

For no one cares for matrimonial cooings,
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.

Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

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.

Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety.

Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety.

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.