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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.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to read more
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.
Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.
Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
The generous heart
Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
The generous heart
Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
A friend is a second self.
A friend is a second self.
