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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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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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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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But times are alter'd trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
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Religion does what philosophy could never do it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
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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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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
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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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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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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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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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