Quotations about:
    burning out

GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet

Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)
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