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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
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 31. As it was a precept of antiquity, to leane more to vertue, then parentage: so is it a tenet of christianity, to repose more trust on the blood of christ, then our owne merits
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 18. That we ought not to be sorie at the losse of worldly goods
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 25. Vertue, and goodnesse are very much opposed by the selfe-conceit, that many men have of their owne sufficiencie
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 38. How Fortune oftentimes most praeposterously pond'ring the aections of men, with a great deale of injustice bestoweth her favours
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