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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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To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
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The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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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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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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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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A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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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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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.
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The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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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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