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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
Dramaturge
Essayist
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper
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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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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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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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Silence gives consent.
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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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The very pink of perfection.
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