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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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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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It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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Error is ever talkative.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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The first blow is half the battle.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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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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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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