Nor ever penetrate the silent urn.

Soame Jennins.

All fame is foreign, but of true desert;

Plays round the head, but comes not near the heart;

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs

Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas;

And more true joy Marcellus exil’d feels,

Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels.

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And what is fame? the meanest have their day;