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A treatyce of Moral philosophy containing the sayinges of the wise

Wherein you maye see the worthye and pithye sayinges of ye Philosophers, Emperors, kinges, and oratours, of their liues, their aunswers, of what lignage they came of, and of what cou[n]trey they were, whose worthy and notable preseptes, counsailes parables and semblables doth hereafter folow: First gathered and englished by Willia[m] Baldwin, after that, twise augmented by Thomas Paulfreyman ... & now once againe enlarged by the first aucthor
  
  

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The summe of all.

[Diligence is a quickenes and liuelynes of mynde]

Diligence is a quickenes and liuelynes of mynde
whereby all thinges are finished most aptly.
Diligence doth always this commoditie finde,
it neuer repenteth but endeth most gladly.
Careful diligence is the keye of certeintie.
and as with diligence men doe their busines,
what rewarde shall follow the ende wil so expresse.