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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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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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There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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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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All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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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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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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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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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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