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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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Popular glory is a perfect coquette her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
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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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Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
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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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All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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