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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 38. The truest wealth, man hath it from himselfe


IF you from discontents have a desire
To live exeem'd, the way is ne'r t'importune
Page  35 Your friends with suits: but alwaies to require
Your riches from your selfe: and not from fortune;
For your dislike, affection, and opinion
Are things still subject to your owne dominion.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
  2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
  3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 3. The couragious resolution of a valiant man
  4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 36. The different fruits of idlenesse, and vertue in young men
  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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