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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
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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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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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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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It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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