A candle burning at both ends shines a brighter light but you can't have it all ways - it burns out quicker.
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.” - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Just as heat of the fire reduces fuel to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma." - Lord Krishna from the Bhagavad Gita
"Among notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like it's enemy life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared." - Otto Weninger