Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The First Booke. № 2. That those of a solid wit, cannot be puffed vp with applause; nor incensed by contumelie

What vulgar people speake (if we be wise) 
	Will neither joy, nor miscontentment breed us; 
For we ought mens opinions so to prise: 
	As that they may attend us, and not lead us, 
It not being fit their praise should rule our actions: 
Or that we shun what’s good for their detractions.

Эпиграммы. Книга I. № 2. Те, у кого крепкий ум, не задирают нос от похвал и не лезут на стенку от хулы

Коль мы умны, толпы любое мненье
	Не радует и не тревожит нас.
Из сотен мнений в нашем окруженье
	Лишь наше нам – единственный указ.
С толпой считаясь, можно ль в то же время
Хоть как-нибудь её уменьшить бремя?

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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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