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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
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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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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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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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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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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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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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The very pink of perfection.
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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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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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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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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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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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