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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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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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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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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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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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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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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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What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
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It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
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