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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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 mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
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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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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
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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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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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We are all sure of two things, at least we shall suffer and we shall all die.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
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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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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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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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There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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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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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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