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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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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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No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
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But times are alter'd trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
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The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
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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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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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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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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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