. Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations . STIRRING MASTERS MAKE A RICH A SHIP AGROUND IS A BEACON AT SEA. |ORT! hard a-port! ftarboard your helm! look out!See what our neighbour in the Schuyts about !Upon a fand-fpit there as fure as day,Hes hard and faft ; right in the courfe we lay !Give her a good wide berth, my mate, that weClear well the fand-tail where thofe breakers never pole her off—to ftrive is vain ;With ebbing-tide as now, there fhell remain: WISE MEN LEARN BY OTHERS HARM. IT IS EASIEST LEARNING AT ANOTHERS COST. And moul
. Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations . STIRRING MASTERS MAKE A RICH A SHIP AGROUND IS A BEACON AT SEA. |ORT! hard a-port! ftarboard your helm! look out!See what our neighbour in the Schuyts about !Upon a fand-fpit there as fure as day,Hes hard and faft ; right in the courfe we lay !Give her a good wide berth, my mate, that weClear well the fand-tail where thofe breakers never pole her off—to ftrive is vain ;With ebbing-tide as now, there fhell remain: WISE MEN LEARN BY OTHERS HARM. IT IS EASIEST LEARNING AT ANOTHERS COST. And mould the wind chop round and blow to more,Shell break her rudder, or get damage ! look well to this, and let it beA caution in Lifes voyage unto Skipper who defcries a fhip aground,No beacon needs to guide, nor lead to found :And truly prudent is that man alone,Who by anothers fault can mend his own. Many who have themfelves but little ikill To fhape their courfe where peril may accrue,Avert full oft the greater fhare of ill, Who take example from what others Youth, than this, there is no
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