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" The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. "
Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry - Page 205
edited by - 1791
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope (1745)

William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1974 - 444 pages
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Alexander Pope

Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...the Passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf 261 Not one will change his neighbour with himself, The learn'd is happy nature to explore. The fool is happy that he knows no more; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n, The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing....
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The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage

Theodore Menline Bernstein - English language - 1965 - 520 pages
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Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the Mind

Benjamin Rush - Intellect - 1981 - 770 pages
...is not the necessary consequence of ignorance and of the inactivity of the understanding. The "Wise is happy, nature to explore; , "The fool is happy that he knows no more." In this respect, you see the understanding differs from the senses and the passions; all the pleasures...
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淡江評論, Volume 13

Chinese literature - 1982 - 466 pages
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The Nabokovian, Issues 13-17

1984 - 348 pages
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European university papers. Series 18: Comparative literature

Literature, Comparative - 1970 - 808 pages
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Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in Eighteenth-century Literature from ...

Claude Julien Rawson - English literature - 1985 - 431 pages
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Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written ...

Benjamin Franklin, Peter Pauper Press - Almanacs, American - 1986 - 90 pages
...desired, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself ; The learn'd are happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. The rich are happy in the plenty given ; The poor contents him with the care of heaven. Thus does some comfort...
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