Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages ...

OUT OF DEBT, OUT OF DANGER.
MEN always desire more than they possess, yet scarcity has been the ruin of fewer
People than abundance and repletion.
THEOGNIS.
I AM richer than you, if I do not want things, which you cannot do without.
THERE is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy,
No chemic art can counterfeit j
QJ It makes men rich in greatest poverty,
Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold,
The homely whistle to sweet music's strain ;
Seldom it comes, to few from heaven sent,
Q That much in little all in nought Content.
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IF there be any happiness to be found upon earth,
WILBYE'S Madrigals.
SOCRATES.
it is in that which we call
contentation : this is a flower that grows not in every garden : the great Doctor of the
Gentiles tells us that he had it ; I have learned (saith he) in what estate soever I
(0 am, therewith to be content. BP. HALL. Of Contentation.
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IF solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast the jewel lies ;
|_ And they are fools who roam :
The world has nothing to bestow;
>. From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear place our home.
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Vain is alike the joy we seek,
And vain what we possess,
Unless harmonious reason tunes
The Passions into peace.
To temper'd wishes, just desires,
Is happiness confm'd ;
And, deaf to folly's call, attends
The music of the mind.
COTTON.
CARTER.
HE THAT IS WARM THINKS Al_l_ ARE SO.
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