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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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
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Coffins
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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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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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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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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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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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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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Silence gives consent.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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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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