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Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie : with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works (1860)

Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660, Farley, Robert, Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662, ill, Leighton, John, 1822-1912, ill, Pigot, Richard · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 149

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that no man fhall perceive it fhine.But all in vaine, flame will it felfe bewray.And through thy coat, by burning, make his way.Who in his lower heart doth hurt conceale,Hoping that nothing fhall the fame reveale,He hides the torches of the hellifh rout,Which will at length with violence burfl out… … SELF-CONCEIT PRECLUDES IMPROVEMENT. NOTHINQ IS IMPOSSIBLE TO A NA/IL.L-INQ MIND. Non intrandum, aut penetrandum.

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