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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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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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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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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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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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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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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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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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