MAX. 28.
Be not so mad, as to alter that Countenance which thy Creator made thee; remember
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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- 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 June 13, 2024.
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'twas the work of his hands; if it be bad how darst thou mend it; if it be good, why dost thou mend it? art thou asham'd of his work, and proud of thy own? he made thy face to be known by; why desirest thou to be known by another? It is a shame to adulterate Mo∣desty, but more to adulterate Nature; lay by thy Art, and blush not to appear what he blushes not to make thee. It is better to be his Picture than thine own.