[plates 7-10]
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy, drive your cart and
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your plow over the bones of the dead, the road of excess leads to the
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palace of wisdom. Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
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He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. The cut worm forgives the
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plow. Dip him in the river who loves water. A fool sees not the same tree
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that a wise man sees. He whose face gives no light, shall never become a
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star. Eternity is in love with the productions of time. The busy bee has
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no time for sorrow. The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock; but of
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wisdom, no clock can measure. All wholsom food is caught without a net or
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a trap. Bring out number, weight & measure in a year of dearth. No bird
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soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. A dead body revenges not
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injuries. The most sublime act is to set another before you. If the fool
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would persist in his folly, he would become wise. Folly is the cloke of
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knavery. Shame is pride's cloke. Prisons are built with stones of law,
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brothers with bricks of religion. The pride of the peacock is the glory of
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God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is
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the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. Excess of
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sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps. The roaring of lions, the howling of
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wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are
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portions of eternity too great for the eye of man. The fox condemns the
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trap, not himself. Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. Let man wear the
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feel of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep. The bird a nest, the
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spider a web, man friendship. The selfish smiling fool,& the sullen,
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frowning fool shall be thought wise, that they may be a rod. What is now
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proved was only once imagin'd. The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet
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watch the roots; the lion the tyger, the horse, the elephant, watch the
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fruits. The cistern contains: the fountain overflows. One thought fills
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immensity, always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid
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you. Every thing possible to be beliv'd is an image of truth. The eagle
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never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow. The
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fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion. Think in the
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morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. He who
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has suffer'd you to impose on him knows you. As the plow follows words, so
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God rewards prayers. The tygers of wrath are the wiser than the horses of
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instruction. Expect poison from the standing water. You never know what is
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enough unless you know what is more than enough. Listen to the fool's
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reproach! It is a kingly title! The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the
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mouth of water, the beard of earth. The weak in courage is strong in
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cunning. The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow; nor the
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lion, the horse, how he shall take his pray. The thankful receiver bears a
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plentiful harvest. If others had not been foolish, we should be so. The
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soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd. When thou seest an eagle, thou
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seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! As the caterpiller chooses
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the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on. So the priest lays his curse on the
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fairest joys. To create a little flower is the labour of ages. Damn
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braces: bless relaxes. The best wine is the oldest, the best water the
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newest. Prayers plow not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not! The head
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sublime, the heart pathos, the genitals beauty, the hands & feet
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proportion. As the air to bird or the sea to fish, so is contempt to the
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contemptible. The crow wish'd every thing was black, the owl that every
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thing was white. Exuberance is beauty. If the lion was advised by the fox,
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he would be cunning. Improve (me) nt makes strait road; but the crooked
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roads without improvement are roads of genius. Sooner murder an infant in
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its cradle than nurse unacted desires. Where man is not, nature is barren.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be beliv'd.
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Enough! Or too much.
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[plate 11]
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