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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 2. Those that have greatest estates are not alwayes the wealthiest men
THey're richer, who diminish their desires:
Though their possessions be not amplified,
Then Monarchs: who in owning large Empires,
Have minds, that never will be satisfied;
For he is poore, that wants what he would have:
And rich, who having nought, doth nothing crave.
Thomas Urquhart
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- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 35. To a Gentleman, who was extreamly offen∣ded at the defamatory speeches of a base detractor
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 36. The different fruits of idlenesse, and vertue in young men
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