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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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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
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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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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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