88 It was an excellent rule that fel frō Epicure, whose name is odi••us to vs for the father of loos∣nes. That if a man wold be rich, honorable, aged,
Meditations and vowes, diuine and morall. Seruing for direction in Christian and ciuill practise. Deuided into two bookes. By Ios. Hall.
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- Meditations and vowes, diuine and morall. Seruing for direction in Christian and ciuill practise. Deuided into two bookes. By Ios. Hall.
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- Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
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- At London :: Printed by Humfrey Lownes, for Iohn Porter.,
- 1605.
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hee should not striue so much to ad to his welth, reputation, yeares, as to detract from his desires. For certainly in these things, which stand most vpon conceite, hee hath the most that desireth least. A poore man that hath little, and desires no more, is in truth richer then the greatest mo∣narch, that thinkes hee hath not what he should; or what hee might, or that grieues there is no more to haue. It is not necessitie but ambition that settes mens hearts on the racke. If I haue
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meate, drinke, apparell, I will learne therewith to bee content. If I had the world full of wealth beside, I could enioy no more then I vse; the rest could please mee no otherwise but by loo∣king on; and why can I not thus solace my self, while it is others?