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Title: Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660 Farlie, Robert Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662 Leighton, John, 1822-1912 Pigot, Richard
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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IF POOR, ACT CAUTIOUSLY. ; « ITTLE fifh ! why come you fkimmingm On the furface as you do ?Deeper down you mould be fwimming, Thats the fitter place for you.Here above, great fea-mews hover, Keen of eye, and fwift of flight;And for fuch as you moreover, Have a wondrous appetite. WHO CLIMBS TOO HIGH, IS NEAR A FALL. S<&< CHACUN A SA PLACE. *§*g Here alone, the kings of ocean May with fafety dare the light,But how came you by the notion Thus to brave the eagles fight ?Every kind of little creature Should its proper ftation know;And your fitter place by nature,2 Is much rather—down below. J But if little Bleaks difport them, Like the porpoife and the whale,While fo heedlefs they comport them, Danger muft their lives aflail:Little fifties undertaking What the great alone may do,Like all, who their part miftaking, Soon or late their folly rue. tpVERY little fish expects to become a whale. He who would be every where willbe no where.—Danish Proverb. Those who wade in unknown

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