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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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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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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
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They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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