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The first blow is half the battle.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
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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
Inspired Idiot
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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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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
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It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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Error is always talkative.
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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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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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