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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Doctor Goldsmith
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Oliverus Goldsmith
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Dottor Golssmith
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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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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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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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
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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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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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