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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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 Writer
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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 watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
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O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity to thee the wretched seek for succor on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
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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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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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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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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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