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Miscellanies In Prose And Verse

[by T. C. Paget]

Pagett, Thomas Catesby (1689-1742)

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[True Wisdom is the Grant of bounteous Heaven]

True Wisdom is the Grant of bounteous Heaven,
Which to the Worthy Few alone, is given;

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But Grandeur, Power, and a large Estate,
Are Chances in the Lottery of Fate:
Choose then, my Friend (if Choice there can be any)
Would you be of the Few, or of the Many?