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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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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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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
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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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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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