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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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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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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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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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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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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 heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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