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On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
When you have set yourself a task finish it.
When you have set yourself a task finish it.
Seeming genial, venial fault.
Seeming genial, venial fault.
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.
Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.
Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.
Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
