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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
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
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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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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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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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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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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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At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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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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Hope, like the gleaming taper
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity but every other the offspring of guilt.
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The first blow is half the battle.
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A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
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All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
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