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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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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
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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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The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
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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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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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