Томас Эркарт (Thomas Urquhart)

Эпиграммы. Книга II. № 16. О тех, кто воистину богат и воистину беден

Кто о богатстве истинном радеет,
		Земного блага оценил тщету.
Кто вечно ищет большего, беднеет,
		Впадая постепенно в нищету.
Беднее человека не бывало
Стяжателя, которому всё мало.

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Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 16. Who is truly rich, and who poore

By the contempt, not value of the matter 
	Of worldly goods, true riches are possess’d; 
For our desire by seeking groweth greater: 
	And by desiring, povertie’s increass’d: 
So that on earth there can be none so poore 
As he, whose mind in plentie longs for more.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 19. What is not vertuously acquired, if acquired by vs, is not properly ours
4. 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
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 25. That too much bewailing, and griefe is to be avoided at Funerals, to one lamenting the decease of a friend

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