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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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
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Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
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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
Bait
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Hope
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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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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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
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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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What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!
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At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
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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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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
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If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
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