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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Elphin
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Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
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They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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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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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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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
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This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.
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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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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Prudery is ignorance.
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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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O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity to thee the wretched seek for succor on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.
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Crimes generally punish themselves.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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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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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
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