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Crimes generally punish themselves.
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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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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Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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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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A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
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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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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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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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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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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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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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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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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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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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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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