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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)
Date: 1728
"Gold is the Load-stone of the Great, / And vulgar Souls must catch the glitt'ring Bait."
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Date: 1728
"I think / I'ad e'en as good take up with Ink: / On second Thoughts too, 'cause 'tis black, / It seems the very thing I lack, / For I am apt to think his Soul / Is somewhat darker than a Coal."
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
Date: 1728
"Gold has no Lustre to the Souls of Man, / Gold is but tempting to our worldly Eye"
preview | full record— Pattison, William (1706-1727)
