. Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations . NEVER YET RUN SMOOTH. CONTENT IS HAPPINESS. Su<e quemque Fortune EACH DEPLORES HIS OWN LOT. THE Fifli that in the Weel are taken,When they find no ifTue more,Feel the ftronger wifh awaken To be where they were before :But the Fifh that fee them in it, Think it far more pleafant there;And they ftrive their beft to win it,Swimming round it evrywhere. THOU SHALT NOT COVET. COVETOUSNESS BRINGS NOTHING HOME. Thus it is that men, like Fifties, Neer contented with their lot,Ever reftlefs in their wilhes, Cr
. Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations . NEVER YET RUN SMOOTH. CONTENT IS HAPPINESS. Su<e quemque Fortune EACH DEPLORES HIS OWN LOT. THE Fifli that in the Weel are taken,When they find no ifTue more,Feel the ftronger wifh awaken To be where they were before :But the Fifh that fee them in it, Think it far more pleafant there;And they ftrive their beft to win it,Swimming round it evrywhere. THOU SHALT NOT COVET. COVETOUSNESS BRINGS NOTHING HOME. Thus it is that men, like Fifties, Neer contented with their lot,Ever reftlefs in their wilhes, Craving more than what theyve got;—In their greed of wealth and ftation, Coveting yet more and more,Oft n change of fituation, Find it worfe than twas before. 0 Z DISCIS cum modo ingrediendi nassam videat, egrediendi non videat, et nihilominus ingrediatur, piscatoribus fit praeda: non est ergo suscipiendum negotium, nisi prius perspecta. ratione qua te possis inde rursus explicare: nee enim labyrinthi . ingrediendi sunt sine filo, quo securus possis redire. Nemo est, quin ubivis, quam ibi, ubi est, esse malit: nam suam quisque conditionemmiserrimam puta
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