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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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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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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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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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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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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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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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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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But times are alter'd trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
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