My friend, the things that do attain <br />The happy life be these, I find: <br />The riches left, not got with pain, <br />The fruitful ground; the quiet mind; <br /> <br />The equal friend; no grudge, no strife; <br />No charge of rule nor governance; <br />Without disease the healthy life; <br />The household of continuance; <br /> <br />The mean diet, no dainty fare; <br />True wisdom joined with simpleness; <br />The night discharged of all care, <br />Where wine the wit may not oppress; <br /> <br />The faithful wife, without debate; <br />Such sleeps as may beguile the night: <br />Content thyself with thine estate, <br />Neither wish death, nor fear his might.<br /><br />Henry Howard<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-things-that-cause-a-quiet-life/
