Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]

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Title
Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]
Author
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
Publication
London :: Printed for, and are to be so[ld by] Josias Shaw ...,
1698.
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Conduct of life.
Maxims.
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"Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56827.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2025.

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MAX. 53.

As there is no Worldly Gain, without some Loss, so there is no Worldly Loss without some Gain; If thou hast lost thy Wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art de∣graded from thy honour, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of Envy; if sickness hath blur'd thy Beauty, it hath delivered thee from Pride, set the allow∣ance against the loss and thou

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shalt find no loss great, he loseth little or nothing that reserves himself.

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