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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
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Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
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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
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Hope
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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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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.
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Silence gives consent.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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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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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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