Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 20. How we should enjoy the delights, we have: and contemne such, as we have not

LEt not the want of pleasures be unpleasant
To your remembrance: and with moderation
Make use of those contentments, which are present:
If you would ne'r be griev'd with expectation;
For to our owne, things absent to preferre,
Frustrates our hope, when it hath bred us feare.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 35. Wherein true Wealth consists
4. 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
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence

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