Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The First Booke. № 30. That wise men, to speak properly, are the most powerfull men in the world

THe greatest power is to wise men due:
The pow'r of all men else to theirs being nought;
For wise men onely, what they will, can doe;
Because they will not doe; but, what they ought:
Such being their cariage, that their reason still
Directs their power: and informes their will.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
3. 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
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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