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"On Contentment [from The Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison]"
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Date: 1728
"Go, vain mistaken Man, if you would find / That golden Ore, Contentment of the Mind, / Depart from all these busy Ills of Life /And live exempt from Pride, and Noise and Strife"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)