Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 11. How dangerous it is, to write, or speake of moderne times

Though all, some errors doe commit: yet few. 
	Having committed them, would have them told: 
That talke then being displeasing which is true, 
	Who cannot flatter, he his peace must hold: 
So hard a thing it is, to say or pen, 
Without offence, the truth of living men.

Эпиграммы. Книга II. № 11. О том, сколь опасно писать и говорить о времени, в которое живёшь

Твержу, твержу, твержу, – и всё напрасно,
	Хоть кол на голове тебе теши:
Не говори о нынешних, – опасно,
	О здравствующих правду не пиши,
А если говоришь и если пишешь,
Готовься к неприятностям, – ты слышишь?

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3.06.2007
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1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 3. We ought always to thinke upon what we are to say, before we utter any thing; the speeches and talk of solid wits, being still pre∣meditated, and never using to forerunne the mind
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 29. How magnanimous a thing it is, in adversity, patiently to endure, what cannot bee evited
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 19. Ingratitude is such a common vice, that even those who exclame most against it, are not freest of it
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 32. Our inclination is so depraved, that it is apt enough of it selfe to runne to sin, with∣out any instigation, whereby to drive it forward

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