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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The First Booke. № 25. Vertue, and goodnesse are very much opposed by the selfe-conceit, that many men have of their owne sufficiencie


THer's nothing hinders vertue more, then the
Opinion of our owne perfection;
For none endeavours to doe that, which hee
Imagineth he hath already done:
And some by thinking t'have what they have not,
Neglect the wisedome, which they might have got.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
  2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches
  3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 5. The wise, and noble resolution of a truly couragious, and devout spirit, towards the absolute danting of those irregular affections, and inward perturbations, which readily might happen to impede the current of his sanctified designes: and oppose his already ini∣tiated progresse, in the divinely proposed course of a vertuous, and holy life
  4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 18. Not time, but our actions, are the true measure of our life
  5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 33. Why our thoughts, all the while we are in this tran∣sitory world, from the houre of our nativity, to the laying downe of our bodies in the grave, should not at any time exspaciat themselves in the broad way of destruction


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