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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
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
Sidelong
Bashful
Virgin
Virgins
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Life
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It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.
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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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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!
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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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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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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The first blow is half the battle.
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An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity to thee the wretched seek for succor on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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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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It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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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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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
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