Institutions, essays and maxims, political, moral & divine divided into four centuries.

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Title
Institutions, essays and maxims, political, moral & divine divided into four centuries.
Author
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
Publication
London :: Printed for Sam. Briscoe ...,
1695.
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Maxims.
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"Institutions, essays and maxims, political, moral & divine divided into four centuries." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56988.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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MAX. 72.

Look well before thou Leap into the Chair of Honour, the Higher thou Climest the lower thou fallest; If Virtue prefer thee, Virtue will preserve thee; if Gold or Favour advance thee, thy honour is pinn'd up∣on the Wheel of Fortune, when the Wheel shall turn, thy Ho∣nour

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falls, and thou remainest an Everlasting Monument of thy own ambitious folly.

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