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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
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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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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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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
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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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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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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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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
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