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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
Writer
Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
Inspired Idiot
Taste
Charming
Novel
Colors
Color
Bliss
Beauty
Describe
Happiness
Destructive
Nature
Romance
Consummate
Humans
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No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
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This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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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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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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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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