Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 10. That a contented man is rich, how litle wealth soever he have

HE's rich who craving nothing else, doth find
Content in the possession of his owne;
For in so much as doth concerne the mind:
Not to desire, and have is all, but one;
For if the thoughts thereof be rich, we 're sure;
Fortune hath not the skill to make us poore.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 32. That if we strove not more for superfluities, then for what is needfull, we would not be so much troubled, is wee are
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 27. Of Lust, and Anger
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth

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