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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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Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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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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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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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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Crimes generally punish themselves.
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As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
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But times are alter'd trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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