Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher

WHy doe you study Morals, if you take
No paines t'abate your avarice, and lust?
For how can vertues definition make
You valiant, prudent, temperate, or just:
Jf you industriously purge not your mind
Of any vice, to which you are inclin'd?

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 4. How abject a thing it is, for a man to have bin long in the world without giving any proofe either by vertue, or learning, that he hath beene at all
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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