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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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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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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
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Error is ever talkative.
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Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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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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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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The first blow is half the battle.
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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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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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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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