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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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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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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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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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At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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