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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
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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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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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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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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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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Crimes generally punish themselves.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
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Error is always talkative.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
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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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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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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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