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 Third Booke. № 8. The resolution of a proficient in vertue
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 23. We ought not to regard the contumelies, and calumnies of Lyars, and profane men
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 36. How difficult a thing it is, to tread in the pathes of vertue
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 6. To one, whom poverty was to be wished for, in so farre, as he could hardly otherwise be restrained from excessive ryot, and feasting

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