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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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
Playwright
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Polygraph
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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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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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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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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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Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
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Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.
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