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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.”
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- Source:
- Lycidas. Line 70.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 095f2e1b4ea4fbed271aed22fe581f71715c6e4ff6ac9c0b6add0aa890d40ed2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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