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Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.
Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the
people.
Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the
people.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
An old cat sports not with her prey.
An old cat sports not with her prey.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge is power.
I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.
I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.
