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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>THE Fish that in the Weel are taken,<lb/>
                                        When they find no issue more,<lb/>
                                        Feel the stronger wish awaken<lb/>
                                        To be where they were before:<lb/>
                                        But the Fish that see them in it,<lb/>
                                        Think it far more pleasant there;<lb/>
                                        And they strive their best to win it,<lb/>
                                        Swimming round it ev'rywhere.<lb/>
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                                        Thus it is that men, like Fishes,<lb/>
                                        Ne'er contented with their lot,<lb/>
                                        Ever restless in their wishes,<lb/>
                                        Craving more than what they've got;-<lb/>
                                        In their greed of wealth and station,<lb/>
                                        Coveting yet more and more,<lb/>
                                        Oft in change of situation,<lb/>
                                        Find it worse than t'was before.</p>
                                   <p>PISCIS cùm modo ingrediendi nassam videat, egrediendi non videat, et nihilominùs<lb/>
                                        ingrediatur, piscatoribus fit praeda: non est ergò suscipiendum negotium, nisi<lb/>
                                        priùs perspectà ratione quâ te possis inde rursus explicare: nec enim labyrinthi<lb/>
                                        ingrediendi sunt sine filo, quo securus possis redire.<lb/>
                                        NEMO est, quin ubivis, quàm ibi, ubi est, esse malit: nam suam quisque conditionem<lb/>
                                        miserrimam putat; cùm tamen contentum suis reus esse, maximae sunt certissimae-<lb/>
                                        que divitiae. -CICERO.<lb/>
                                        Non esse cupidum, pecunia est.<lb/>
                                        SI vis gaudere per unum diem, radas barbam, si per septimanam, vade ad nuptias;<lb/>
                                        si per mensem, eme pulchrum equum; si per semestre, eme pulchram domum; si per<lb/>
                                        annum, ducas pulchram uxorem; si per biennium, fias sacerdos; si semper vis esse<lb/>
                                        laetus et gaudens, vives tua sorte contentus. -Thesaurus ridendi.</p>
                                   <p>AMONG good things I prove and find<lb/>
                                        The quiet lyfe doth most abounde,<lb/>
                                        And sure to the contented mynde<lb/>
                                        There is no riches may be founde. -Songs and Sonnetes. <lb/>
                                        LET not what I cannot have<lb/>
                                        My cheer of mind destroy.-COLLEY CIBBER.<lb/>
                                        ALL men have their trials and afflictions, but a contented mind accomodates itself<lb/>
                                        to every vicissitude of life; neither poverty nor distress, neither losses not<lb/>
                                        disapointments, neither sickness nor sorrow, can affect its equanimity. -DR. BREWER.<lb/>
                                        A CONTENTED mind is free from the distressing passions of ambition, covetousness,<lb/>
                                        jealousy, envy and the like, which prey like Vultures upon the peace of the discontented.-Ibid.<lb/>
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                                        MEN always desire more than they possess, yet scarcity has been the ruin of fewer<lb/>
                                        People than abundance and repletion.-THEOGNIS.<lb/>
                                        I AM richer than you, if I do not want things, which you cannot do without.<lb/>
                                        SOCRATES.</p>
                                   <p>THERE is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, <lb/>
                                        No chemic art can counterfeit;<lb/>
                                        It makes men rich in greatest poverty,<lb/>
                                        Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold,<lb/>
                                        The homely whistle to sweet music's strain;<lb/>
                                        Seldom it comes, to few from heaven sent,<lb/>
                                        That much in little-all in nought-Content.<lb/>
                                        WILBYE'S Madrigals.</p>
                                   <p>IF there be any happiness to be found upon earth, it is in that which we call<lb/>
                                        contentation: this is a flower that grows not in every garden: the great Doctor of the<lb/>
                                        Gentiles tells us that he had it; I have learned (saith he) in what estate soever I<lb/>
                                        am, therewith to be content. -BP. HALL. Of Contentation.</p>
                                   <p>IF solod happiness we prize,<lb/>
                                        Within our breast the jewel lies;<lb/>
                                        And they are fools who roam:<lb/>
                                        The world has nothing to bestow;<lb/>
                                        From our own selves our joys must flow,<lb/>
                                        And that dear place our home.<lb/>
                                        COTTON.</p>
                                   <p>Vain is alike the joy we seek,<lb/>
                                        And vain what we possess,<lb/>
                                        Unless harmonious reason tunes<lb/>
                                        The Passions into peace.<lb/>
                                        TO temper'd whishes, just desires,<lb/>
                                        Is happiness confin'd;<lb/>
                                        And, deaf to folly's call, attends<lb/>
                                        The music of the mind.<lb/>
                                        CARTER.</p>
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                                   <p>ALL living things with others losse maintaine<lb/>
                                        Their life, not so my harmelesse light I gaine.<lb/>
                                        The plant doth feede upon the fertile foile;<lb/>
                                        And bruitish beasts the pleasant plants doe spoile;<lb/>
                                        So harmelesse beast, and bird, and fish must dy,<lb/>
                                        To pamper mans too licorish gluttony.<lb/>
                                        But of dondition though I mortal be;<lb/>
                                        Yet this my Light is onely nurst by me.<lb/>
                                        The most of men doe live by others losse,<lb/>
                                        Whilst others goods they to themselves engrosse:<lb/>
                                        So man proves wolfe to man, and robbery gives<lb/>
                                        Most gaine to him, who most unjustly lives.<lb/>
                                        Thrice happy's he, who's of his state content,<lb/>
                                        As if it were Crassus or Croesus rent.<lb/>
                                        FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>
                              
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PARENT uiuc_83931c29eep
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
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NEXT uiuc_83931c29eep_emblem016b
SEQ 
IIHIM UIUC
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
CAPTION_EN A fish-trap (fuik) in a riverscape
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LINK_FACSIMILE uiuc_83931c29eep_fac081
HIM UIUC
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
IC 25H213
; 43C12(+4164)
; 56BB3
; 57AA6223(+0)
; 86(EACH DEPLORES HIS OWN LOT)
; 86(SUAE QUEMQUE FORTUNAE POENITET)
MOTTO_EN <p>EACH DEPLORES HIS OWN LOT</p>
                              
URL_IMAGE uiuc_83931c29eep_pic081.jpg
ID uiuc_83931c29eep_emblem016
CHILDREN 
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