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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 150

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SELF-CONCEIT PRECLUDES IMPROVEMENT. NOTHINQ IS IMPOSSIBLE TO A NA/IL.L-INQ MIND. Non intrandum, aut penetrandum. … ENTER NOT, OR PASS THROUGH. S with the Web fpun by the Spiders care, Tentrap the flies and gnats which fill the air,So with th entangling nets by Venus laidT enfnare the hearts of heedlefs youth and maid :—For in the Love net, as the Spiders too,The gnat is taken, but the Bee breaks through.…

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