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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
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Physician Writer
Playwright
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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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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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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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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Silence gives consent.
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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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Religion does what philosophy could never do it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
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Error is always talkative.
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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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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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Crimes generally punish themselves.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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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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