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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
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Physician
Physician Writer
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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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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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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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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
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The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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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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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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We are all sure of two things, at least we shall suffer and we shall all die.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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