Nice... reading up on stoicism and stumbled on this nugget; an - TopicsExpress



          

Nice... reading up on stoicism and stumbled on this nugget; an excerpt from Robert Southwells poem, Content and Rich... I have no hopes but one, Which is of heavenly reign; Effects attained, or not desired, All lower hopes refrain. I feel no care of coin; Well-doing is my wealth; My mind to me an empire is, While grace affordeth health. I clip high-climbing thoughts, The wings of swelling pride; Their fall is worst, that from the height Of greatest honour slide... No change of Fortunes calms Can cast my comforts down; When Fortune smiles, I smile to think How quickly she will frown. And when in forward mood, She proves an angry foe, Small gain I found to let her calm, Less loss to let her go.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 04:22:25 +0000

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