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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
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
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Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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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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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many for what is genius or courage without a heart?
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Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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Religion does what philosophy could never do it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
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There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
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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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