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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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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Prudery is ignorance.
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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Silence gives consent.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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Religion does what philosophy could never do it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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