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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 27. We should not be sorry, to be destitute of any thing: so long as we have judgments to perswade vs, that we may minister to our selves, what we have not, by not longing for it
TO want, what J should have, shall never make
My heart lesse cheerfull; reason still requiring,
Page 51 That J be pleas'd, whats' ever things J lacke,
To furnish to my selfe, by not desiring;
For not to wish for things, against the griefe
Of feare, and frustrate hopes provides reliefe.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 30. That the setled quiet of our mind ought not to be moved at sinister accidents
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 33. The onely true progresse to a blessed life
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 42. The deserved mutability in the condition of too ambitious men
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 33. Why our thoughts, all the while we are in this tran∣sitory world, from the houre of our nativity, to the laying downe of our bodies in the grave, should not at any time exspaciat themselves in the broad way of destruction
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 20. Of Negative, and Positive good
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