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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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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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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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Religion does what philosophy could never do it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
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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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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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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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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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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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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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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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Crimes generally punish themselves.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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