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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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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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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
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They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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