Quote by Alexander Pope
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he

The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more. – Alexander Pope

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isnt much better than tedious disease. – Alexander Pope

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For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best. – Alexander Pope

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The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. – John Cage

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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. – Jane Austen

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot

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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. – Thomas Paine

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