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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Oliverus Goldsmith
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Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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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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Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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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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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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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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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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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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