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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
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Oliverus Goldsmith
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Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
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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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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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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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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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