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Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
A great fortune enslaves its owner.
A great fortune enslaves its owner.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
God helps those who help themselves.
God helps those who help themselves.
The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a
saint.
The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a
saint.
Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use.
Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use.
States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall
bodies.
States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall
bodies.
Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
