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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The First Booke. № 18. Not time, but our actions, are the true measure of our life
THat life is short, which measur'd by the span
Of time hath been of vertuous actions scant:
And one day's longer in a learned man,
Then twenty Lusters of an ignorant;
For life is good, and 'tis the quality
Of goodnesse, that extends its quantity.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 27. Of Lust, and Anger
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 33. The onely true progresse to a blessed life
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