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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 16. Who is truly rich, and who poore
By the contempt, not value of the matter
Of worldly goods, true riches are possess’d;
For our desire by seeking groweth greater:
And by desiring, povertie’s increass’d:
So that on earth there can be none so poore
As he, whose mind in plentie longs for more.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 28. That vertue is better, and more powerfull then Fortune
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 12. That the most solid gaine of any, is in the action of ver∣tue, all other emoluments, how lucrative they so ever appeare to the covetous mind, being the chiefest precipitating pushes of humane frailty to an inevitable losse
- Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 32. That if we strove not more for superfluities, then for what is needfull, we would not be so much troubled, is wee are
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 3. We ought always to thinke upon what we are to say, before we utter any thing; the speeches and talk of solid wits, being still pre∣meditated, and never using to forerunne the mind
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