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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
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Physician
Physician Writer
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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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A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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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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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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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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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 wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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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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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many for what is genius or courage without a heart?
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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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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