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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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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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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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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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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Silence gives consent.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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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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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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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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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
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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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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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