Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The First Booke. № 18. Not time, but our actions, are the true measure of our life

THat life is short, which measur'd by the span
Of time hath been of vertuous actions scant:
And one day's longer in a learned man,
Then twenty Lusters of an ignorant;
For life is good, and 'tis the quality
Of goodnesse, that extends its quantity.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 34. The misery of such, as are doubtfull, and suspi∣cious of their VVives chastitie
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 35. Wherein true Wealth consists
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 42. The speech of a noble spirit to his adversary, whom af∣ter he had defeated, he acknowledgeth to be nothing in∣feriour to himselfe in worth, wit, or valour, thereby insinuating that a wise man cannot properly bee subdued: though he be orthrown in body, and worldly commodities

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