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Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

Edward Young
Shadow, Shade, Fame
Edward Young (1806). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]”, p.156

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

Edward Young
Envy, Fame, Proportion
Edward Young, John Doran (1854). “The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran”, p.32

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Edward Young
Splinters, Fame, Satire
Edward Young, Sir Herbert Croft, Sir Herbert Croft (5th bart), Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young ...”, p.222

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