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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Oliverus Goldsmith
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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