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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
WIsely to talke deserveth much respect:
Yet to live wisely (without doubt) is better:
To be accounted wise is a great matter:
But it is most to be it in effect;
Such as would follow wisedome then, let them
Strive more for deeds, then words: for life, then fame.
Thomas Urquhart
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- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 36. Of Death, and Sin
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 7. That men are not destitute of remedies, within them∣selves against the shrewdest accidents, that can befall them
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